netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: tcp: remove per net tcp

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:12:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, therbert@...gle.com, wsommerfeld@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: tcp: remove per net tcp_sock

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:11:55 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:07:47 +0200
> 
>> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 08:45 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>>> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:35:44 -0700 (PDT)
>>> 
>>> > Looks great, applied, thanks Eric.
>>> 
>>> I take that back, it doesn't build:
>>> 
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c: In function ‘ip_send_unicast_reply’:
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481:1: error: section attribute cannot be specified for local variables
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481:1: error: section attribute cannot be specified for local variables
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481:1: error: declaration of ‘__pcpu_unique_unicast_sock’ with no linkage follows extern declaration
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481:1: note: previous declaration of ‘__pcpu_unique_unicast_sock’ was here
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481:9: error: section attribute cannot be specified for local variables
>>> net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1481:9: error: weak declaration of ‘unicast_sock’ must be public
>> 
>> Strange, it builds on my machines, and I got nice performance boost.
>> 
>> Apparently your arch doesnt handle the 
>> 
>> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct inet_sock, unicast_sock)
>> 
>> in the function body ?
> 
> It's x86-64, standard Fedora 17 install.

Just give this thing a unique name and define it right before the function.