On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:14:15PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> Using a spinlock to atomically increase a counter sounds wrong -- we've
> atomic_t for this!
> 
> Also move 'seq_nr' to a different cache line than 'lock' to reduce cache
> line trashing. This has the nice side effect of decreasing the size of
> struct parallel_data from 192 to 128 bytes for a x86-64 build, e.g.
> occupying only two instead of three cache lines.
> 
> Those changes results in a 5% performance increase on an IPsec test run
> using pcrypt.
> 
> Btw. the seq_lock spinlock was never explicitly initialized -- one more
> reason to get rid of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mathias.kra...@secunet.com>
> Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks!
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