[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at least) This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const, so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing. This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly) I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make them const. This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and speedup some socket system calls. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -538,8 +538,8 @@ extern int sysctl_ip6frag_low_thresh;
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extern int sysctl_ip6frag_time;
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extern int sysctl_ip6frag_secret_interval;
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extern struct proto_ops inet6_stream_ops;
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extern struct proto_ops inet6_dgram_ops;
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extern const struct proto_ops inet6_stream_ops;
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extern const struct proto_ops inet6_dgram_ops;
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extern int ip6_mc_source(int add, int omode, struct sock *sk,
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struct group_source_req *pgsr);
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