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Message-ID: <a666cea7-078d-4dc0-bad9-87fa15e44036@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:57:45 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@...gle.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Mubashir Adnan Qureshi <mubashirq@...gle.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Chao Wu <wwchao@...gle.com>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] net-smnp: reorganize SNMP fast path
 variables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 01:47:13AM +0000, Coco Li wrote:
> From: Chao Wu <wwchao@...gle.com>
> 
> Reorganize fast path variables on tx-txrx-rx order.
> Fast path cacheline ends afer LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKLOCKED.
> There are only read-write variables here.
> 
> Below data generated with pahole on x86 architecture.
> 
> Fast path variables span cache lines before change: 12
> Fast path variables span cache lines after change: 2

As i pointed out for the first version, this is a UAPI file.

Please could you add some justification that this does not cause any
UAPI changes. Will old user space binaries still work after this?

Thanks
	Andrew

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