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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dada1@cosmosbay.com
Cc: kchang@athenacr.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bmb@athenacr.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reorder fields of struct socket
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:59:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090315.195923.109697114.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BB72FA.1080401@cosmosbay.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:03:54 +0100

> On x86_64, its rather unfortunate that "wait_queue_head_t wait"
> field of "struct socket" spans two cache lines (assuming a 64
> bytes cache line in current cpus)
> 
> offsetof(struct socket, wait)=0x30
> sizeof(wait_queue_head_t)=0x18
> 
> This might explain why Kenny Chang noticed that his multicast workload
> was performing bad with 64 bit kernels, since more cache lines ping pongs
> were involved.
> 
> This litle patch moves "wait" field next "fasync_list" so that both
> fields share a single cache line, to speedup sock_def_readable()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Eric.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-16  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 17:49 Multicast packet loss Kenny Chang
2009-01-30 19:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 19:17 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-01-30 20:03 ` Neil Horman
2009-01-30 22:29   ` Kenny Chang
2009-01-30 22:41     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-31 16:03       ` Neil Horman
2009-02-02 16:13         ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-02 16:48         ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-03 11:55           ` Neil Horman
2009-02-03 15:20             ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-04  1:15               ` Neil Horman
2009-02-04 16:07                 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-04 16:46                   ` Wesley Chow
2009-02-04 18:11                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-05 13:33                       ` Neil Horman
2009-02-05 13:46                         ` Wesley Chow
2009-02-05 13:29                   ` Neil Horman
2009-02-01 12:40       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 13:45         ` Neil Horman
2009-02-02 16:57           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 18:22             ` Neil Horman
2009-02-02 19:51               ` Wes Chow
2009-02-02 20:29                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 21:09                   ` Wes Chow
2009-02-02 21:31                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-03 17:34                       ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-04  1:21                         ` Neil Horman
2009-02-26 17:15                           ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-28  8:51                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-01 17:03                               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-04  8:16                               ` David Miller
2009-03-04  8:36                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-07  7:46                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-08 16:46                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-09  2:49                                       ` David Miller
2009-03-09  6:36                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-13 21:51                                           ` David Miller
2009-03-13 22:30                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-13 22:38                                               ` David Miller
2009-03-13 22:45                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-14  9:03                                                   ` [PATCH] net: reorder fields of struct socket Eric Dumazet
2009-03-16  2:59                                                     ` David Miller [this message]
2009-03-16 22:22                                                 ` Multicast packet loss Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 10:11                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-17 11:08                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 11:57                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-17 15:00                                                       ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-17 15:16                                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 19:39                                                           ` David Stevens
2009-03-17 21:19                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-03 19:28                                                   ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-05 13:49                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-06 21:53                                                       ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-06 22:12                                                         ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-07 20:08                                                       ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-08  8:12                                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-09 22:56                                       ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-10  5:28                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-10 23:22                                           ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-11  3:00                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-12 15:47                                               ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-12 16:34                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-27 18:40       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-27 18:56         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-27 19:45           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-27 20:12             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-27 21:36               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 13:53     ` Eric Dumazet

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