net: keep name_hlist close to name

__dev_get_by_name() is slow because pm_qos_req has been inserted between
name[] and name_hlist, adding cache misses.

pm_qos_req has nothing to do at the beginning of struct net_device

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index d94cb1431519..a0b84e3b087c 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1046,10 +1046,9 @@ struct net_device {
          */
         char                    name[IFNAMSIZ];
 
-        struct pm_qos_request   pm_qos_req;
-
-        /* device name hash chain */
+        /* device name hash chain, please keep it close to name[] */
         struct hlist_node       name_hlist;
+
         /* snmp alias */
         char                    *ifalias;
 
@@ -1322,6 +1321,8 @@ struct net_device {
 
         /* group the device belongs to */
         int group;
+
+        struct pm_qos_request   pm_qos_req;
 };
 #define to_net_dev(d) container_of(d, struct net_device, dev)