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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2009-03-09 08:18:29 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-03-10 05:22:43 -0700
commit7546dd97d27306d939c13e03318aae695badaa88 (patch)
treeced310466fd679ceae4e676ae8c31fd78b7bd72f /net/ipv4
parent3f612132c7164d5cc9ed677a2fdf8950222d2170 (diff)
net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/af_inet.c2
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/arp.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 627be4dc7fb..d5aaabbb7cb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ static int ipv4_proc_init(void);
* IP protocol layer initialiser
*/
-static struct packet_type ip_packet_type = {
+static struct packet_type ip_packet_type __read_mostly = {
.type = cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_IP),
.func = ip_rcv,
.gso_send_check = inet_gso_send_check,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index 3f6b7354699..3d67d1ffed7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ void arp_ifdown(struct net_device *dev)
* Called once on startup.
*/
-static struct packet_type arp_packet_type = {
+static struct packet_type arp_packet_type __read_mostly = {
.type = cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_ARP),
.func = arp_rcv,
};