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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-12-13 23:26:29 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-01-03 13:10:59 -0800
commitfbe9cc4a87030d5cad5f944ffaef6af7efd119e4 (patch)
treef4e9ce6608e1b8b7e160e44e68853a2b6e5e84d5 /include/net/af_unix.h
parentd83d8461f902c672bc1bd8fbc6a94e19f092da97 (diff)
downloadlinux-fbe9cc4a87030d5cad5f944ffaef6af7efd119e4.tar.bz2
[AF_UNIX]: Use spinlock for unix_table_lock
This lock is actually taken mostly as a writer, so using a rwlock actually just makes performance worse especially on chips like the Intel P4. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--include/net/af_unix.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/af_unix.h b/include/net/af_unix.h
index b5d785ab4a0e..3f302ae98c03 100644
--- a/include/net/af_unix.h
+++ b/include/net/af_unix.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ extern void unix_gc(void);
#define UNIX_HASH_SIZE 256
extern struct hlist_head unix_socket_table[UNIX_HASH_SIZE + 1];
-extern rwlock_t unix_table_lock;
+extern spinlock_t unix_table_lock;
extern atomic_t unix_tot_inflight;