linux-kernel - [PATCH] struct vfsmount : keep mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark away from mnt

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Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:51:58 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [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: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

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