linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: struct module

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Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:01:25 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: struct module_ref should contains long fields

Le vendredi 16 décembre 2011 à 07:54 -0800, Tejun Heo a écrit :
> Hello, Eric.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:07:37AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > +struct module_ref {
> > +	unsigned long incs;
> > +	unsigned long decs;
> > +} __attribute((aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long))));
> 
> Why not ____cacheline_aligned?  Another thing is that for percpu
> memory, packing could be better or at least shouldn't be worse.
> Percpu area usages are likely to be local so one major benefit of
> cacheline alignment - avoiding cacheline pingpong - goes away.  The
> constant is called SMP_CACHE_BYTES after all.

Its percpu data, there is no need to waste a full cache line per cpu for
this.

This is only a hint to make sure one single cache line is touched if a
thread increments/decrements a module refcount, with no memory extra
cost : We play with the alignement of this 8 or 16 bytes block.



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