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Commit 1caf8d39 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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inet: shrink inet_timewait_death_row by 48 bytes



struct inet_timewait_death_row uses two cache lines, because we want
tw_count to use a full cache line to avoid false sharing.

Rework its definition and placement in netns_ipv4 so that:

1) We add 60 bytes of padding after tw_count to avoid
  false sharing, knowing that tcp_death_row will
  have ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp attribute.

2) We do not risk padding before tcp_death_row, because
  we move it at the beginning of netns_ipv4, even if new
 fields are added later.

3) We do not waste 48 bytes of padding after it.

Note that I have not changed dccp.

pahole result for struct netns_ipv4 before/after the patch :

/* size: 832, cachelines: 13, members: 139 */
/* sum members: 721, holes: 12, sum holes: 95 */
/* padding: 16 */
/* paddings: 2, sum paddings: 55 */

->

/* size: 768, cachelines: 12, members: 139 */
/* sum members: 673, holes: 11, sum holes: 39 */
/* padding: 56 */
/* paddings: 2, sum paddings: 7 */
/* forced alignments: 1 */

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 30b8817f
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