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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: optimize INET input path further
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:37:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF687F3.7030107@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291179847.2856.452.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On 12/01/2010 12:04 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>  struct sock_common {
> -	/*
> -	 * first fields are not copied in sock_copy()
> +	/* skc_daddr and skc_rcv_saddr must be grouped :
> +	 * cf INET_MATCH() and INET_TW_MATCH()
>  	 */
> -	union {
> -		struct hlist_node	skc_node;
> -		struct hlist_nulls_node skc_nulls_node;
> -	};
> -	atomic_t		skc_refcnt;
> -	int			skc_tx_queue_mapping;
> +	__be32			skc_daddr;
> +	__be32			skc_rcv_saddr;
>  
>  	union  {
>  		unsigned int	skc_hash;

Putting IPv4 addresses in sock_common doesn't make it so common anymore :)

Is it possible to make this a union so other address families like IPv6
can benefit from this as well, or will that blow the whole cache line
effect you were trying to achieve?

-Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-01  5:04 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: optimize INET input path further Eric Dumazet
2010-12-01 17:37 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2010-12-01 17:42   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-01 18:00     ` Brian Haley
2010-12-03 17:11       ` David Miller
2010-12-10  4:07 ` David Miller

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