[PATCH 12/15] ipv4: Dirty less cache lines in route caching paths.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2012-07-18 18:24:29
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
Don't bother incrementing dst->__use and setting dst->lastuse, they are completely pointless and just slow things down. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> --- net/ipv4/route.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index d4a3c6e..2190fc4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static int __mkroute_input(struct sk_buff *skb, if (!(flags & RTCF_DIRECTSRC) && !itag) { rth = FIB_RES_NH(*res).nh_rth_input; if (rth) { - dst_use(&rth->dst, jiffies); + dst_hold(&rth->dst); goto out; } do_cache = true;
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ local_input: if (!(flags & RTCF_DIRECTSRC) && !itag) { rth = FIB_RES_NH(res).nh_rth_input; if (rth) { - dst_use(&rth->dst, jiffies); + dst_hold(&rth->dst); goto set_and_out; } do_cache = true;
@@ -1755,7 +1755,7 @@ static struct rtable *__mkroute_output(const struct fib_result *res, if (!fnhe) { rth = FIB_RES_NH(*res).nh_rth_output; if (rth) { - dst_use(&rth->dst, jiffies); + dst_hold(&rth->dst); return rth; } }
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