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Message-ID: <715f1588-9cd5-b845-51a5-ca58549c4d28@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:27:04 +0530
From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/pageblock: remove false sharing in
pageblock_flags
On 08/19/2020 11:17 AM, Alex Shi wrote:
> Current pageblock_flags is only 4 bits, so it has to share a char size
> in cmpxchg when get set, the false sharing cause perf drop.
>
> If we incrase the bits up to 8, false sharing would gone in cmpxchg. and
> the only cost is half char per pageblock, which is half char per 128MB
> on x86, 4 chars in 1 GB.
Agreed that increase in memory utilization is negligible here but does
this really improve performance ?
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