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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:36:13 +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: keep name_hlist close to name

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

__dev_get_by_name() is slow because pm_qos_req has been inserted between
name[] and name_hlist, adding cache misses.

pm_qos_req has nothing to do at the beginning of struct net_device

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index d94cb14..a0b84e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1046,10 +1046,9 @@ struct net_device {
 	 */
 	char			name[IFNAMSIZ];
 
-	struct pm_qos_request	pm_qos_req;
-
-	/* device name hash chain */
+	/* device name hash chain, please keep it close to name[] */
 	struct hlist_node	name_hlist;
+
 	/* snmp alias */
 	char 			*ifalias;
 
@@ -1322,6 +1321,8 @@ struct net_device {
 
 	/* group the device belongs to */
 	int group;
+
+	struct pm_qos_request	pm_qos_req;
 };
 #define to_net_dev(d) container_of(d, struct net_device, dev)
 


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