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2009-11-04net: cleanup include/linuxEric Dumazet
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-17net: restore gnet_stats_basic to previous definitionEric Dumazet
In 5e140dfc1fe87eae27846f193086724806b33c7d "net: reorder struct Qdisc for better SMP performance" the definition of struct gnet_stats_basic changed incompatibly, as copies of this struct are shipped to userland via netlink. Restoring old behavior is not welcome, for performance reason. Fix is to use a private structure for kernel, and teach gnet_stats_copy_basic() to convert from kernel to user land, using legacy structure (struct gnet_stats_basic) Based on a report and initial patch from Michael Spang. Reported-by: Michael Spang <mspang@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-20net: reorder struct Qdisc for better SMP performanceEric Dumazet
dev_queue_xmit() needs to dirty fields "state", "q", "bstats" and "qstats" On x86_64 arch, they currently span three cache lines, involving more cache line ping pongs than necessary, making longer holding of queue spinlock. We can reduce this to one cache line, by grouping all read-mostly fields at the beginning of structure. (Or should I say, all highly modified fields at the end :) ) Before patch : offsetof(struct Qdisc, state)=0x38 offsetof(struct Qdisc, q)=0x48 offsetof(struct Qdisc, bstats)=0x80 offsetof(struct Qdisc, qstats)=0x90 sizeof(struct Qdisc)=0xc8 After patch : offsetof(struct Qdisc, state)=0x80 offsetof(struct Qdisc, q)=0x88 offsetof(struct Qdisc, bstats)=0xa0 offsetof(struct Qdisc, qstats)=0xac sizeof(struct Qdisc)=0xc0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2004-11-30[GNET_STATS]: kernel-api doc for gnet stats/estimatorThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2004-10-04[NET]: Generic network statistics/estimatorDavid S. Miller
Work done by Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> and Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> The following patchset introduces generic network statistics for netlink users. It uses nested TLV which prevents further compatibility problems when introducing new statistics. Backward compatibility to existing TLV types TCA_STATS and TCA_XSTATS is ensured but can be easly removed once it is no longer needed. Therefore prior users of struct tc_stats can be converted to this API and existing userspace applications will not notice a difference while converted applications can use the new extendable statistic interface. Changes: - Add generic network statistics API for netlink users. - Introduces a generic rate estimator based on timers. Patch is based on Jamals patch and adapted to the new generic network statistics API. - Add documentation of generic network statistics and estimator API. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>