linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/23] iommu/amd: Move aperture

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Message-Id: <1450822888-22590-9-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:21:13 +0100
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, joro@...tes.org, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH 08/23] iommu/amd: Move aperture_range.offset to another cache-line

From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>

Moving it before the pte_pages array puts in into the same
cache-line as the spin-lock and the bitmap array pointer.
This should safe a cache-miss.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
---
 drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
index be0e81a..2a22515 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ struct aperture_range {
 
 	/* address allocation bitmap */
 	unsigned long *bitmap;
+	unsigned long offset;
 
 	/*
 	 * Array of PTE pages for the aperture. In this array we save all the
@@ -132,8 +133,6 @@ struct aperture_range {
 	 * just calculate its address in constant time.
 	 */
 	u64 *pte_pages[64];
-
-	unsigned long offset;
 };
 
 /*
-- 
1.9.1

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