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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-10-13 08:22:03 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-10-16 11:13:23 -0700
commit10da66f7552b3c7966c2f4f1f72009fb0b5539ec (patch)
tree517c39912a0aea9d4da3c3915c78e832dfbba855 /net/ipv4
parent874ffa8f72444d6253d2669fed304875c128f86b (diff)
fib: avoid false sharing on fib_table_hash
While doing profile analysis, I found fib_hash_table was sometime in a cache line shared by a possibly often written kernel structure. (CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH || !CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES) It's hard to detect because not easily reproductible. Make sure we allocate a full cache line to keep this shared in all cpus caches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 919f2ad19b4..3df057e8964 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -1016,16 +1016,15 @@ static struct notifier_block fib_netdev_notifier = {
static int __net_init ip_fib_net_init(struct net *net)
{
int err;
- unsigned int i;
+ size_t size = sizeof(struct hlist_head) * FIB_TABLE_HASHSZ;
+
+ /* Avoid false sharing : Use at least a full cache line */
+ size = max_t(size_t, size, L1_CACHE_BYTES);
- net->ipv4.fib_table_hash = kzalloc(
- sizeof(struct hlist_head)*FIB_TABLE_HASHSZ, GFP_KERNEL);
+ net->ipv4.fib_table_hash = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (net->ipv4.fib_table_hash == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- for (i = 0; i < FIB_TABLE_HASHSZ; i++)
- INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&net->ipv4.fib_table_hash[i]);
-
err = fib4_rules_init(net);
if (err < 0)
goto fail;