linux/net/decnet
Eric Dumazet 90ddc4f047 [NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:15 -08:00
..
netfilter [DECNET]: Fix build after netlink changes. 2005-08-29 16:01:20 -07:00
af_decnet.c [NET]: move struct proto_ops to const 2006-01-03 13:11:15 -08:00
dn_dev.c [NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasks 2005-08-29 16:00:54 -07:00
dn_fib.c [DECNET]: Fix memset overflow on 64bit archs while dumping decnet routing rules 2005-07-05 15:01:25 -07:00
dn_neigh.c [DECNET]: Fix RCU race condition in dn_neigh_construct(). 2005-08-17 12:05:27 -07:00
dn_nsp_in.c [TCP]: Move the tcp sock states to net/tcp_states.h 2005-08-29 15:41:54 -07:00
dn_nsp_out.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
dn_route.c [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER 2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
dn_rules.c [NETLINK]: Correctly set NLM_F_MULTI without checking the pid 2005-06-18 22:54:12 -07:00
dn_table.c [NET]: kfree cleanup 2005-11-08 09:41:34 -08:00
dn_timer.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig [NET]: move config options out to individual protocols 2005-07-11 21:13:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
README Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sysctl_net_decnet.c [DECNET]: add memory buffer settings 2005-12-05 13:42:06 -08:00
TODO Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00

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