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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-06-15 18:10:13 -0700
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2015-06-18 13:05:45 +0200
commita1a56aaa0735c7821e85c37268a7c12e132415cb (patch)
tree2d8d0372fb798896d8a93aa1ba6d493bbb901026 /include/linux/netfilter
parent01555e74bde51444c6898ef1800fb2bc697d479e (diff)
netfilter: x_tables: align per cpu xt_counter
Let's force a 16 bytes alignment on xt_counter percpu allocations, so that bytes and packets sit in same cache line. xt_counter being exported to user space, we cannot add __align(16) on the structure itself. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
index 95693c4cebdd..1c97a2204379 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ifname_compare_aligned(const char *_a,
* so nothing needs to be done there.
*
* xt_percpu_counter_alloc returns the address of the percpu
- * counter, or 0 on !SMP.
+ * counter, or 0 on !SMP. We force an alignment of 16 bytes
+ * so that bytes/packets share a common cache line.
*
* Hence caller must use IS_ERR_VALUE to check for error, this
* allows us to return 0 for single core systems without forcing
@@ -365,7 +366,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ifname_compare_aligned(const char *_a,
static inline u64 xt_percpu_counter_alloc(void)
{
if (nr_cpu_ids > 1) {
- void __percpu *res = alloc_percpu(struct xt_counters);
+ void __percpu *res = __alloc_percpu(sizeof(struct xt_counters),
+ sizeof(struct xt_counters));
if (res == NULL)
return (u64) -ENOMEM;