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Vlad Yasevich
d970dbf845 SCTP: Convert custom hash lists to use hlist.
Convert the custom hash list traversals to use hlist functions.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2007-11-09 11:43:40 -05:00
Vlad Yasevich
73d9c4fd1a SCTP: Allow ADD_IP to work with AUTH for backward compatibility.
This patch adds a tunable that will allow ADD_IP to work without
AUTH for backward compatibility.  The default value is off since
the default value for ADD_IP is off as well.  People who need
to use ADD-IP with older implementations take risks of connection
hijacking and should consider upgrading or turning this tunable on.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
2007-11-07 11:39:27 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov
6257ff2177 [NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()
Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from
the callers and from the function prototype.

Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the
assignments inside if-s.

This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one.
I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope 
this particular split helped.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01 00:39:31 -07:00
Rusty Russell
af49d9248f Remove "unsafe" from module struct
Adrian Bunk points out that "unsafe" was used to mark modules touched by
the deprecated MOD_INC_USE_COUNT interface, which has long gone.  It's time
to remove the member from the module structure, as well.

If you want a module which can't unload, don't register an exit function.

(Vlad Yasevich says SCTP is now safe to unload, so just remove the
__unsafe there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:49 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
0639300900 [SCTP]: port randomization
Add port randomization rather than a simple fixed rover
for use with SCTP.  This makes it act similar to TCP, UDP, DCCP
when allocating ports.

No longer need port_alloc_lock as well (suggestion by Brian Haley).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 17:30:18 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
a29a5bd4f5 [SCTP]: Implement SCTP-AUTH initializations.
The patch initializes AUTH related members of the generic SCTP
structures and provides a way to enable/disable auth extension.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:30 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
007e3936bd [SCTP]: Move sysctl_sctp_[rw]mem definitions to protocol.c
The sctp_[rw]mem definitions should really be in protocol.c
since that is where they are initialized.  This also allows
one to build a kernel without sysctl support.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
1b8d7ae42d [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe.
This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting.  By
virtue of this all socket create methods are touched.  In addition
the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.

Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
exotic protocols are supported.

Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.

[ Integrated AF_IUCV build fixes from Andrew Morton... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Neil Horman
4d93df0abd [SCTP]: Rewrite of sctp buffer management code
This patch introduces autotuning to the sctp buffer management code
similar to the TCP.  The buffer space can be grown if the advertised
receive window still has room.  This might happen if small message
sizes are used, which is common in telecom environmens.
New tunables are introduced that provide limits to buffer growth
and memory pressure is entered if to much buffer spaces is used.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:09 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
559cf710b0 [SCTP]: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU
Since the sctp_sockaddr_entry is now RCU enabled as part of
the patch to synchronize sctp_localaddr_list, it makes sense to
change all handling of these entries to RCU.  This includes the
sctp_bind_addrs structure and it's list of bound addresses.

This list is currently protected by an external rw_lock and that
looks like an overkill.  There are only 2 writers to the list:
bind()/bindx() calls, and BH processing of ASCONF-ACK chunks.
These are already seriealized via the socket lock, so they will
not step on each other.  These are also relatively rare, so we
should be good with RCU.

The readers are varied and they are easily converted to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samdurala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-16 16:03:28 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
2930354799 [SCTP]: Add RCU synchronization around sctp_localaddr_list
sctp_localaddr_list is modified dynamically via NETDEV_UP
and NETDEV_DOWN events, but there is not synchronization
between writer (even handler) and readers.  As a result,
the readers can access an entry that has been freed and
crash the sytem.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samdurala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-16 16:02:12 -07:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Sridhar Samudrala
827bf12236 [SCTP]: Re-order SCTP initializations to avoid race with sctp_rcv()
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-04 13:36:30 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
7562f876cd [NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 15:13:45 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
703315712c [SCTP]: Implement SCTP_MAX_BURST socket option.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:04 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2c0fd387b0 [SCTP]: Introduce sctp_hdr()
For consistency with all the other skb->h.raw accessors.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:19 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
eddc9ec53b [SK_BUFF]: Introduce ip_hdr(), remove skb->nh.iph
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:10 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
d808ad9ab8 [NET] SCTP: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:20:11 -08:00
David S. Miller
e89862f4c5 [TCP]: Restore SKB socket owner setting in tcp_transmit_skb().
Revert 931731123a

We can't elide the skb_set_owner_w() here because things like certain
netfilter targets (such as owner MATCH) need a socket to be set on the
SKB for correct operation.

Thanks to Jan Engelhardt and other netfilter list members for
pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-26 01:04:55 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
24123186fa [SCTP]: make 2 functions static
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- ipv6.c: sctp_inet6addr_event()
- protocol.c: sctp_inetaddr_event()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-22 11:12:05 -08:00
Sridhar Samudrala
882a382c3e [SCTP]: Enable auto loading of SCTP when creating an ipv6 SCTP socket.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13 16:48:28 -08:00
Sridhar Samudrala
29c7cf9618 [SCTP]: Handle address add/delete events in a more efficient way.
Currently in SCTP, we maintain a local address list by rebuilding the whole
list from the device list whenever we get a address add/delete event.

This patch fixes it by only adding/deleting the address for which we
receive the event.

Also removed the sctp_local_addr_lock() which is no longer needed as we
now use list_for_each_safe() to traverse this list. This fixes the bugs
in sctp_copy_laddrs_xxx() routines where we do copy_to_user() while
holding this lock.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13 16:48:27 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Al Viro
3dbe86566e [SCTP]: Annotate ->supported_addrs().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:27:11 -08:00
Al Viro
6fbfa9f951 [SCTP]: Annotate ->inaddr_any().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:27:08 -08:00
Al Viro
7dcdbd9579 [SCTP]: Don't bother setting sin_port in ->from_sk().
... the only caller will overwrite immediately

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:27:06 -08:00
Al Viro
74af924ab6 [SCTP]: ->a_h is gone now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:27:00 -08:00
Al Viro
6244be4e06 [SCTP]: Trivial parts of a_h -> a switch.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:58 -08:00
Al Viro
d3f7a54a29 [SCTP]: ->get_saddr() switched to net-endian.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:52 -08:00
Al Viro
dd86d136f9 [SCTP]: Switch ->from_addr_param() to net-endian.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:48 -08:00
Al Viro
5ab7b859ab [SCTP]: Switch sctp_add_bind_addr() to net-endian.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:47 -08:00
Al Viro
d55c41b115 [SCTP]: Switch ->from_skb() to net-endian.
All instances switched, callers updated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:44 -08:00
Al Viro
854d43a465 [SCTP]: Annotate ->dst_saddr()
switched to taking a pointer to net-endian sctp_addr
and a net-endian port number.  Instances and callers
adjusted; interestingly enough, the only calls are
direct calls of specific instances - the method is not
used at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:35 -08:00
Al Viro
5f242a13e8 [SCTP]: Switch ->cmp_addr() and sctp_cmp_addr_exact() to net-endian.
instances of ->cmp_addr() are fine with switching both arguments
to net-endian; callers other than in sctp_cmp_addr_exact() (both
as ->cmp_addr(...) and direct calls of instances) adjusted;
sctp_cmp_addr_exact() switched to net-endian itself and adjustment
is done in its callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:32 -08:00
Al Viro
2a6fd78ade [SCTP] embedded sctp_addr: net-endian mirrors
Add sctp_chunk->source, sctp_sockaddr_entry->a, sctp_transport->ipaddr
and sctp_transport->saddr, maintain them as net-endian mirrors of
their host-endian counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:30 -08:00
Al Viro
09ef7fecea [SCTP]: Beginning of conversion to net-endian for embedded sctp_addr.
Part 1: rename sctp_chunk->source, sctp_sockaddr_entry->a,
sctp_transport->ipaddr and sctp_transport->saddr (to ..._h)

The next patch will reintroduce these fields and keep them as
net-endian mirrors of the original (renamed) ones.  Split in
two patches to make sure that we hadn't forgotten any instanes.

Later in the series we'll eliminate uses of host-endian variants
(basically switching users to net-endian counterparts as we
progress through that mess).  Then host-endian ones will die.

Other embedded host-endian sctp_addr will be easier to switch
directly, so we leave them alone for now.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:29 -08:00
Al Viro
dbc16db1e5 [SCTP]: Trivial sctp endianness annotations.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:26:23 -08:00
David S. Miller
931731123a [TCP]: Don't set SKB owner in tcp_transmit_skb().
The data itself is already charged to the SKB, doing
the skb_set_owner_w() just generates a lot of noise and
extra atomics we don't really need.

Lmbench improvements on lat_tcp are minimal:

before:
TCP latency using localhost: 23.2701 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 23.1994 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 23.2257 microseconds

after:
TCP latency using localhost: 22.8380 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 22.9465 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 22.8462 microseconds

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:52 -08:00
Vlad Yasevich
4f4443088b [SCTP]: Correctly set IP id for SCTP traffic
Make SCTP 1-1 style and peeled-off associations behave like TCP when
setting IP id. In both cases, we set the inet_sk(sk)->daddr and initialize
inet_sk(sk)->id to a random value.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30 18:54:32 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
1616436601 [SCTP]: Cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global function static:
  - socket.c: sctp_apply_peer_addr_params()
- add proper prototypes for the several global functions in
  include/net/sctp/sctp.h

Note that this fixes wrong prototypes for the following functions:
- sctp_snmp_proc_exit()
- sctp_eps_proc_exit()
- sctp_assocs_proc_exit()

The latter was spotted by the GNU C compiler and reported
by David Woodhouse.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:19:03 -07:00
Brian Haley
4cbf1cae9f [SCTP]: Change globals to __read_mostly
Change sctp globals to __read_mostly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:53 -07:00
Vladislav Yasevich
3fd091e73b [SCTP]: Remove multiple levels of msecs to jiffies conversions.
The SCTP sysctl entries are displayed in milliseconds, but stored
internally in jiffies. This results in multiple levels of msecs to
jiffies conversion and as a result produces a truncation error. This
patch makes things consistent in that we store and display defaults
in milliseconds and only convert once for use by association.
This patch also adds some sane min/max values so that we don't go off
the deep end.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:39 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
dc022a9874 [SCTP]: ADDIP: Don't use an address as source until it is ASCONF-ACKed
This implements Rules D1 and D4 of Sec 4.3 in the ADDIP draft.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:49:25 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
5636bef732 [SCTP]: Reject sctp packets with broadcast addresses.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 22:55:35 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
543d9cfeec [NET]: Identation & other cleanups related to compat_[gs]etsockopt cset
No code changes, just tidying up, in some cases moving EXPORT_SYMBOLs
to just after the function exported, etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:48:35 -08:00
Dmitry Mishin
3fdadf7d27 [NET]: {get|set}sockopt compatibility layer
This patch extends {get|set}sockopt compatibility layer in order to
move protocol specific parts to their place and avoid huge universal
net/compat.c file in the future.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:45:21 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
14c850212e [INET_SOCK]: Move struct inet_sock & helper functions to net/inet_sock.h
To help in reducing the number of include dependencies, several files were
touched as they were getting needed headers indirectly for stuff they use.

Thanks also to Alan Menegotto for pointing out that net/dccp/proto.c had
linux/dccp.h include twice.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:21 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
90ddc4f047 [NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:15 -08:00