ethtool: Declare netdev_rss_key as __read_mostly.

netdev_rss_key is written to once and thereafter is read by
drivers when they are initialising. The fact that it is mostly
read and not written to makes it a candidate for a __read_mostly
declaration.

Signed-off-by: Kim Jones <kim-marie.jones@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Carey <alan.carey@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rami Rosen <rami.rosen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 78a20cec2a0a71e12d7a95f3d2340d83a0095579..219f53c30cb3cd4a9a2fdd1c2a2d3ca343f28bca 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3744,7 +3744,7 @@ void netdev_lower_state_changed(struct net_device *lower_dev,
 
 /* RSS keys are 40 or 52 bytes long */
 #define NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN 52
-extern u8 netdev_rss_key[NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN];
+extern u8 netdev_rss_key[NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN] __read_mostly;
 void netdev_rss_key_fill(void *buffer, size_t len);
 
 int dev_get_nest_level(struct net_device *dev,

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index daf04709dd3c695ff5c47f7d30c0f005397db00e..453c803f1c8713da0138041e2b59534aae6b8206 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ static int ethtool_copy_validate_indir(u32 *indir, void __user *useraddr,
        return 0;
 }
 
-u8 netdev_rss_key[NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN];
+u8 netdev_rss_key[NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN] __read_mostly;
 
 void netdev_rss_key_fill(void *buffer, size_t len)
 {