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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2005-12-22 12:49:22 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-01-03 13:11:15 -0800
commit90ddc4f0470427df306f308ad03db6b6b21644b8 (patch)
treef97c1d57b25585394ebbd4b42b8d42a339f98644 /net/key
parent77d76ea310b50a9c8ff15bd290fcb4ed4961adf2 (diff)
downloadlinux-90ddc4f0470427df306f308ad03db6b6b21644b8.tar.gz
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/key')
-rw-r--r--net/key/af_key.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
index d32f7791f1e4..52efd04cbedb 100644
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static __inline__ void pfkey_unlock_table(void)
 }
 
 
-static struct proto_ops pfkey_ops;
+static const struct proto_ops pfkey_ops;
 
 static void pfkey_insert(struct sock *sk)
 {
@@ -3127,7 +3127,7 @@ out:
 	return err;
 }
 
-static struct proto_ops pfkey_ops = {
+static const struct proto_ops pfkey_ops = {
 	.family		=	PF_KEY,
 	.owner		=	THIS_MODULE,
 	/* Operations that make no sense on pfkey sockets. */