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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-11-11 06:57:19 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-11-11 10:29:40 -0800
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neigh: reorder struct neighbour
It is important to move nud_state outside of the often modified cache line (because of refcnt), to reduce false sharing in neigh_event_send() This is a followup of commit 0ed8ddf4045f (neigh: Protect neigh->ha[] with a seqlock) This gives a 7% speedup on routing test with IP route cache disabled. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/neighbour.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/neighbour.h10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
index 55590ab16b3e..815b2ce9f4a4 100644
--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
@@ -96,16 +96,16 @@ struct neighbour {
struct neigh_parms *parms;
unsigned long confirmed;
unsigned long updated;
- __u8 flags;
- __u8 nud_state;
- __u8 type;
- __u8 dead;
+ rwlock_t lock;
atomic_t refcnt;
struct sk_buff_head arp_queue;
struct timer_list timer;
unsigned long used;
atomic_t probes;
- rwlock_t lock;
+ __u8 flags;
+ __u8 nud_state;
+ __u8 type;
+ __u8 dead;
seqlock_t ha_lock;
unsigned char ha[ALIGN(MAX_ADDR_LEN, sizeof(unsigned long))];
struct hh_cache *hh;