Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latencysocket polling

From: Eliezer Tamir
Date: Tue May 28 2013 - 04:04:43 EST


On 28/05/2013 03:26, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 10:44 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 66772cf..c7c3ea6 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ struct cg_proto;
* @sk_error_report: callback to indicate errors (e.g. %MSG_ERRQUEUE)
* @sk_backlog_rcv: callback to process the backlog
* @sk_destruct: called at sock freeing time, i.e. when all refcnt == 0
+ * @sk_napi_id: id of the last napi context to receive data for sk
*/
struct sock {
/*
@@ -399,6 +400,9 @@ struct sock {
int (*sk_backlog_rcv)(struct sock *sk,
struct sk_buff *skb);
void (*sk_destruct)(struct sock *sk);
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+ unsigned int sk_napi_id;
+#endif
};

I believe this is a bad choice for data locality.

I would rather move it in the same cache line than sk_rxhash

I will move it to right after sk_rxhash.

-Eliezer
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