From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:47:04 +0200

> As IPPROTO_TCP is 6, it makes sense to make sure inet_protos[] array is 
> properly cache line aligned to avoid false sharing on SMP.
> 
> c0680540 b peer_total
> c0680544 b inet_peer_unused_head
> c0680560 B inet_protos
> 
> On i386 this example, we can see that inet_protos[IPPROTO_TCP] shares a 
> potentially hot (and modified) cache line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Applied, thanks again Eric.

We could probably add some const markings to these things as well.
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