netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] net: Add cache alignment in sock

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Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 11:02:49 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] net: Add cache alignment in sock_common
 for socket lookup fields

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 10:19 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> No, we do not want to increase the size of sock_common with such a
>> hammer.
>
> Current sizeof(struct sock_common) is 0x78 bytes.
>
> So moving 2 read_mostly pointers into this structure would be enough to
> make 2 first cache lines read mostly.
>
Right, the problem is refcnt out of those cachelines.

> One candidate would be sk_rx_dst, as it is used in early demux.
>
>
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