Hello Dave, all, Please consider the patch below which makes use of file->private_data to store the pointer to the socket, which avoids touching several unused cachelines in the dentry and inode in sockfd_lookup.
diff -purN 00_v2.6.13-rc6/net/socket.c 01_net_file/net/socket.c --- 00_v2.6.13-rc6/net/socket.c 2005-08-04 15:56:11.000000000 -0400 +++ 01_net_file/net/socket.c 2005-08-10 11:13:18.000000000 -0400 @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ int sock_map_fd(struct socket *sock) file->f_mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE; file->f_flags = O_RDWR; file->f_pos = 0; + file->private_data = sock; fd_install(fd, file); } @@ -436,6 +437,9 @@ struct socket *sockfd_lookup(int fd, int return NULL; } + if (file->f_op == &socket_file_ops) + return file->private_data; /* set in sock_map_fd */ + inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode; if (!S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) { *err = -ENOTSOCK; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html