netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] inet: rename some inet

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Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] inet: rename some inet_sock fields

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:30:45 +0200

> In order to have better cache layouts of struct sock (separate zones
> for rx/tx paths), we need this preliminary patch.
> 
> Goal is to transfert fields used at lookup time in the first
> read-mostly cache line (inside struct sock_common) and move sk_refcnt
> to a separate cache line (only written by rx path)
> 
> This patch adds inet_ prefix to daddr, rcv_saddr, dport, num, saddr,
> sport and id fields. This allows a future patch to define these
> fields as macros, like sk_refcnt, without name clashes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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