Move the ingress qdisc members of struct net_device from the transmit
cache line to the receive cache line to avoid cache line ping-pong.
These members are only used on the receive path.
Signed-off-by: Neil Turton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- net-2.6.25.git-orig/include/linux/netdevice.h 2008-01-15
17:43:08.000000000 +0000
+++ net-2.6.25.git-ndt1/include/linux/netdevice.h 2008-01-16
09:46:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -597,37 +597,37 @@ struct net_device
/*
* Cache line mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans())
*/
unsigned long last_rx; /* Time of last Rx */
/* Interface address info used in eth_type_trans() */
unsigned char dev_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw address, (before
bcast
because most packets
are unicast) */
unsigned char broadcast[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw bcast add
*/
+ /* ingress path synchronizer */
+ spinlock_t ingress_lock;
+ struct Qdisc *qdisc_ingress;
+
/*
* Cache line mostly used on queue transmit path (qdisc)
*/
/* device queue lock */
spinlock_t queue_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
struct Qdisc *qdisc;
struct Qdisc *qdisc_sleeping;
struct list_head qdisc_list;
unsigned long tx_queue_len; /* Max frames per queue allowed
*/
/* Partially transmitted GSO packet. */
struct sk_buff *gso_skb;
- /* ingress path synchronizer */
- spinlock_t ingress_lock;
- struct Qdisc *qdisc_ingress;
-
/*
* One part is mostly used on xmit path (device)
*/
/* hard_start_xmit synchronizer */
spinlock_t _xmit_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
/* cpu id of processor entered to hard_start_xmit or -1,
if nobody entered there.
*/
int xmit_lock_owner;
void *priv; /* pointer to private data */
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