tcpcb cleanup?

[Scheffenegger, Richard]

Hi,

I've been looking into the cache line alignment today (because D18811).

Found that the commented cache lines only align to line 3 - then they drift from the comments.

For example, t_rttupdated is defined as u_long (8 bytes), while it really only tracks if at least some (small) number of rtt samples were collected, to start the  use of the rtt vars...

Realistically, a uint8_t with a limited increment (if (x<255) x++) would serve the very same function...

Other example: t_sndzerowin (in tcpcb) appears to be only a counter, better placed into the tcpstat structure, where non-functional counters belong IMHO. (perhaps a per-session variant).




And the other variables could probably be defined in the explicit types (uint16/32/64), to be more certain of the alignment - plus making sure that alignment boundaries between different sized types don't result in unintentional shifting of the alignment (like it seems currently to be the case).

Another prime example: struct sackhint is 40 bytes, only 24 of these are actually used; and ideally, sackblks, snd_fack share the same line, while sackhint and snd_holes would do the same (currently, both are distributed across 2)	....


Any appetite to get the (higher) cache lines aligned in tcpcb?

Best regards,
   Richard