Re: [patch] Convert sockets_in_use to use per_cpu areas

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 12:16:32PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>...     
>    -static union {
>    -	int	counter;
>    -	char	__pad[SMP_CACHE_BYTES];
>    -} sockets_in_use[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned = {{0}};
>    +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sockets_in_use);
> 
> You have to provide an explicit initializer for DEFINE_PER_CPU
> declarations or you break some platforms with older GCC's which
> otherwise won't put it into the proper section.
> 

Ok, here's the modified patch...

Thanks,
Kiran

diff -ruN -X dontdiff linux-2.5.52/net/socket.c sockets_in_use-2.5.52/net/socket.c
--- linux-2.5.52/net/socket.c	Mon Dec 16 07:37:53 2002
+++ sockets_in_use-2.5.52/net/socket.c	Tue Dec 24 05:11:36 2002
@@ -189,10 +189,7 @@
  *	Statistics counters of the socket lists
  */
 
-static union {
-	int	counter;
-	char	__pad[SMP_CACHE_BYTES];
-} sockets_in_use[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned = {{0}};
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sockets_in_use) = 0;
 
 /*
  *	Support routines. Move socket addresses back and forth across the kernel/user
@@ -475,7 +472,8 @@
 	inode->i_uid = current->fsuid;
 	inode->i_gid = current->fsgid;
 
-	sockets_in_use[smp_processor_id()].counter++;
+	get_cpu_var(sockets_in_use)++;
+	put_cpu_var(sockets_in_use);
 	return sock;
 }
 
@@ -511,7 +509,8 @@
 	if (sock->fasync_list)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "sock_release: fasync list not empty!\n");
 
-	sockets_in_use[smp_processor_id()].counter--;
+	get_cpu_var(sockets_in_use)--;
+	put_cpu_var(sockets_in_use);
 	if (!sock->file) {
 		iput(SOCK_INODE(sock));
 		return;
@@ -1851,7 +1850,7 @@
 	int counter = 0;
 
 	for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++)
-		counter += sockets_in_use[cpu].counter;
+		counter += per_cpu(sockets_in_use, cpu);
 
 	/* It can be negative, by the way. 8) */
 	if (counter < 0)