linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: per-thread vma caching

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Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:46:49 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>, aswin@...com,
	scott.norton@...com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: per-thread vma caching

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:37:34AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 19:35 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:16:46AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > > +void vmacache_update(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> > > +		     struct vm_area_struct *newvma)
> > > +{
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Hash based on the page number. Provides a good
> > > +	 * hit rate for workloads with good locality and
> > > +	 * those with random accesses as well.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	int idx = (addr >> PAGE_SHIFT) & 3;
> > 
> >  % VMACACHE_SIZE
> > 
> > perhaps? GCC should turn that into a mask for all sensible values I
> > would think.
> > 
> > Barring that I think something like:
> > 
> > #define VMACACHE_BITS	2
> > #define VMACACHE_SIZE	(1U << VMACACHE_BITS)
> > #define VMACACHE_MASK	(VMACACHE_SIZE - 1)
> 
> Hmm all that seems like an overkill.

If GCC does the right thing with % VMACACHE_SIZE it gets rid of an ugly
constant. But the 3 VMACACHE_* things are 'better' in that its
impossible to set VMACACHE_SIZE to silly values.
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