Commit 4ba4d4c0 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct vfsmount: keep mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark away from mnt_flags

I noticed cache misses in touch_atime() that can be avoided if we keep
mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark in a different cache line than mnt_flags
(mostly read)

mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark are modified each time a file is opened/closed
in a file system.

touch_atime() is called each time a file is read, and generally needs to
read mnt_flags.

Other fields of struct vfsmount are mostly read so I chose to move
mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark at the end of struct vfsmount.  And adding a
comment so that nobody tries to re-arrange fields to fill the holes :)

On 64bits platforms, the new offsetof(mnt_count) is 0xC0
On 32bits platforms, it is 0x60, so I didnot add a
____cacheline_aligned_in_smp because it would have a too big impact on the
size of this object (in particular if CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7)
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0aa5de85
......@@ -43,9 +43,8 @@ struct vfsmount {
struct super_block *mnt_sb; /* pointer to superblock */
struct list_head mnt_mounts; /* list of children, anchored here */
struct list_head mnt_child; /* and going through their mnt_child */
atomic_t mnt_count;
int mnt_flags;
int mnt_expiry_mark; /* true if marked for expiry */
/* 4 bytes hole on 64bits arches */
char *mnt_devname; /* Name of device e.g. /dev/dsk/hda1 */
struct list_head mnt_list;
struct list_head mnt_expire; /* link in fs-specific expiry list */
......@@ -54,6 +53,13 @@ struct vfsmount {
struct list_head mnt_slave; /* slave list entry */
struct vfsmount *mnt_master; /* slave is on master->mnt_slave_list */
struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns; /* containing namespace */
/*
* We put mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark at the end of struct vfsmount
* to let these frequently modified fields in a separate cache line
* (so that reads of mnt_flags wont ping-pong on SMP machines)
*/
atomic_t mnt_count;
int mnt_expiry_mark; /* true if marked for expiry */
int mnt_pinned;
};
......
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