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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:25:19 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	vinmenon@...eaurora.org, shashim@...eaurora.org,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	dave@...olabs.net, Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] vmstat: Avoid waking up idle-cpu to service shepherd work

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:47:01PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> And all I get it is 8256 bytes, with or without the change.

Duh, rounded up to cacheline boundary ;-)

Trades two 4 byte holes at the start for a bigger 'hole' at the end.

struct tvec_base {
        spinlock_t                 lock;                 /*     0     2 */

        /* XXX 6 bytes hole, try to pack */

        struct timer_list *        running_timer;        /*     8     8 */
        long unsigned int          timer_jiffies;        /*    16     8 */
        long unsigned int          next_timer;           /*    24     8 */
        long unsigned int          active_timers;        /*    32     8 */
        long unsigned int          all_timers;           /*    40     8 */
        int                        cpu;                  /*    48     4 */

        /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

        struct tvec_root           tv1;                  /*    56  4096 */
        /* --- cacheline 64 boundary (4096 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */
        struct tvec                tv2;                  /*  4152  1024 */
        /* --- cacheline 80 boundary (5120 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */
        struct tvec                tv3;                  /*  5176  1024 */
        /* --- cacheline 96 boundary (6144 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */
        struct tvec                tv4;                  /*  6200  1024 */
        /* --- cacheline 112 boundary (7168 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */
        struct tvec                tv5;                  /*  7224  1024 */
        /* --- cacheline 128 boundary (8192 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */

        /* size: 8256, cachelines: 129, members: 12 */
        /* sum members: 8238, holes: 2, sum holes: 10 */
        /* padding: 8 */
};

vs

struct tvec_base {
	spinlock_t                 lock;                 /*     0     2 */

	/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */

	int                        cpu;                  /*     4     4 */
	struct timer_list *        running_timer;        /*     8     8 */
	long unsigned int          timer_jiffies;        /*    16     8 */
	long unsigned int          next_timer;           /*    24     8 */
	long unsigned int          active_timers;        /*    32     8 */
	long unsigned int          all_timers;           /*    40     8 */
	struct tvec_root           tv1;                  /*    48  4096 */
	/* --- cacheline 64 boundary (4096 bytes) was 48 bytes ago --- */
	struct tvec                tv2;                  /*  4144  1024 */
	/* --- cacheline 80 boundary (5120 bytes) was 48 bytes ago --- */
	struct tvec                tv3;                  /*  5168  1024 */
	/* --- cacheline 96 boundary (6144 bytes) was 48 bytes ago --- */
	struct tvec                tv4;                  /*  6192  1024 */
	/* --- cacheline 112 boundary (7168 bytes) was 48 bytes ago --- */
	struct tvec                tv5;                  /*  7216  1024 */
	/* --- cacheline 128 boundary (8192 bytes) was 48 bytes ago --- */

	/* size: 8256, cachelines: 129, members: 12 */
	/* sum members: 8238, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */
	/* padding: 16 */
};
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