As the comment indicates, the data at the end of nfqnl_instance struct is
written on every queue/dequeue, so it should reside in its own cacheline.
Before this change, 'lock' was in first cacheline so we dirtied both.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
index af832c526048..5379f788a372 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct nfqnl_instance {
* Following fields are dirtied for each queued packet,
* keep them in same cache line if possible.
*/
- spinlock_t lock;
+ spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
unsigned int queue_total;
unsigned int id_sequence; /* 'sequence' of pkt ids */
struct list_head queue_list; /* packets in queue */
--
2.7.3
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