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[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const

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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>
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Eric Dumazet
2005-12-22 12:49:22 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 77d76ea310
commit 90ddc4f047
33 changed files with 66 additions and 66 deletions
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net/appletalk/ddp.c
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@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
#include <linux/atalk.h>
struct datalink_proto *ddp_dl, *aarp_dl;
static struct proto_ops atalk_dgram_ops;
static const struct proto_ops atalk_dgram_ops;
/**************************************************************************\
* *
@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ static struct net_proto_family atalk_family_ops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
static struct proto_ops SOCKOPS_WRAPPED(atalk_dgram_ops) = {
static const struct proto_ops SOCKOPS_WRAPPED(atalk_dgram_ops) = {
.family = PF_APPLETALK,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.release = atalk_release,