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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/ipv6
parent874ffa8f72444d6253d2669fed304875c128f86b (diff)
downloadlinux-10da66f7552b3c7966c2f4f1f72009fb0b5539ec.tar.bz2
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/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index b6a585909d35..de382114609b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -1500,15 +1500,18 @@ static void fib6_gc_timer_cb(unsigned long arg)
static int __net_init fib6_net_init(struct net *net)
{
+ size_t size = sizeof(struct hlist_head) * FIB6_TABLE_HASHSZ;
+
setup_timer(&net->ipv6.ip6_fib_timer, fib6_gc_timer_cb, (unsigned long)net);
net->ipv6.rt6_stats = kzalloc(sizeof(*net->ipv6.rt6_stats), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!net->ipv6.rt6_stats)
goto out_timer;
- net->ipv6.fib_table_hash = kcalloc(FIB6_TABLE_HASHSZ,
- sizeof(*net->ipv6.fib_table_hash),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ /* Avoid false sharing : Use at least a full cache line */
+ size = max_t(size_t, size, L1_CACHE_BYTES);
+
+ net->ipv6.fib_table_hash = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!net->ipv6.fib_table_hash)
goto out_rt6_stats;