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Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:15:03 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: mark some potential candidates __read_mostly

They are all either written once or extremly rarely (e.g. from init
code), so we can move them to the .data..read_mostly section.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 2 +-
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c          | 2 +-
 net/ipv4/devinet.c               | 2 +-
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c              | 2 +-
 net/mpls/mpls_gso.c              | 4 ++--
 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
index 2e19528..2a17500 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 #include "ipvlan.h"
 
-static u32 ipvlan_jhash_secret;
+static u32 ipvlan_jhash_secret __read_mostly;
 
 void ipvlan_init_secret(void)
 {
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 3875ea5..e08b260 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ static size_t br_get_link_af_size(const struct net_device *dev)
 	return pv->num_vlans * nla_total_size(sizeof(struct bridge_vlan_info));
 }
 
-static struct rtnl_af_ops br_af_ops = {
+static struct rtnl_af_ops br_af_ops __read_mostly = {
 	.family			= AF_BRIDGE,
 	.get_link_af_size	= br_get_link_af_size,
 };
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 59ebe16..f0b4a31 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -2322,7 +2322,7 @@ static __net_initdata struct pernet_operations devinet_ops = {
 	.exit = devinet_exit_net,
 };
 
-static struct rtnl_af_ops inet_af_ops = {
+static struct rtnl_af_ops inet_af_ops __read_mostly = {
 	.family		  = AF_INET,
 	.fill_link_af	  = inet_fill_link_af,
 	.get_link_af_size = inet_get_link_af_size,
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 7dcc065e..8623118 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5405,7 +5405,7 @@ static struct pernet_operations addrconf_ops = {
 	.exit = addrconf_exit_net,
 };
 
-static struct rtnl_af_ops inet6_ops = {
+static struct rtnl_af_ops inet6_ops __read_mostly = {
 	.family		  = AF_INET6,
 	.fill_link_af	  = inet6_fill_link_af,
 	.get_link_af_size = inet6_get_link_af_size,
diff --git a/net/mpls/mpls_gso.c b/net/mpls/mpls_gso.c
index 349295d..809df53 100644
--- a/net/mpls/mpls_gso.c
+++ b/net/mpls/mpls_gso.c
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ out:
 	return segs;
 }
 
-static struct packet_offload mpls_mc_offload = {
+static struct packet_offload mpls_mc_offload __read_mostly = {
 	.type = cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_MPLS_MC),
 	.callbacks = {
 		.gso_segment    =	mpls_gso_segment,
 	},
 };
 
-static struct packet_offload mpls_uc_offload = {
+static struct packet_offload mpls_uc_offload __read_mostly = {
 	.type = cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_MPLS_UC),
 	.callbacks = {
 		.gso_segment    =	mpls_gso_segment,
-- 
1.7.11.7

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