netdev - [PATCH net-next] net: add a prefetch in socket backlog processing

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 01 May 2012 04:07:09 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: add a prefetch in socket backlog processing

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

TCP or UDP stacks have big enough latencies that prefetching next
pointer is worth it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 net/core/sock.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 836bca6..1a88351 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1700,6 +1700,7 @@ static void __release_sock(struct sock *sk)
 		do {
 			struct sk_buff *next = skb->next;
 
+			prefetch(next);
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(skb_dst_is_noref(skb));
 			skb->next = NULL;
 			sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html