netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netlink: move nl_table in read

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Date:	Thu, 14 May 2015 17:49:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink: move nl_table in read_mostly section

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:24:50 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> netlink sockets creation and deletion heavily modify nl_table_users
> and nl_table_lock.
> 
> If nl_table is sharing one cache line with one of them, netlink
> performance is really bad on SMP.
> 
> ffffffff81ff5f00 B nl_table
> ffffffff81ff5f0c b nl_table_users
> 
> Putting nl_table in read_mostly section increased performance
> of my open/delete netlink sockets test by about 80 %
> 
> This came up while diagnosing a getaddrinfo() problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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