netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix struct sock bitfield annotation

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0910091539170.32209@gentwo.org>
Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:39:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix struct sock bitfield annotation

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> For networking guys, here is the actual mess with "struct sock" on x86_64,
> related to UDP handling (critical latencies for some people). We basically touch
> all cache lines, in every paths, bad effects on SMP...

Please keep me posted on this. I am very interested in this work.

Some simple shuffling around may do some good here.

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