netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: keep name

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Message-Id: <20120611.131138.1408293576594519909.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:11:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: keep name_hlist close to name

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:36:13 +0200

> 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>

Applied, thanks.
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