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.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
file->f_mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE;
file->f_flags = O_RDWR;
file->f_pos = 0;
+ file->private_data = sock;
fd_install(fd, file);
}
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;