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epoll: trim epitem by one cache line
authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:07:46 +0000 (15:07 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:34:04 +0000 (16:34 +1100)
commit5c37b1c68fdd24a894608e64dbe04e86c451b3b9
tree866b44d9bfc27a3bb1ce5025d7845960e9c63322
parent33cac49b497c4f3804078b5eefd205f2882232f7
epoll: trim epitem by one cache line

It is common for epoll users to have thousands of epitems, so saving a
cache line on every allocation leads to large memory savings.

Since epitem allocations are cache-aligned, reducing sizeof(struct epitem)
from 136 bytes to 128 bytes will allow it to squeeze under a cache line
boundary on x86_64.

Via /sys/kernel/slab/eventpoll_epi, I see the following changes on my
x86_64 Core2 Duo (which has 64-byte cache alignment):

object_size  :  192 => 128
objs_per_slab:   21 =>  32

Also, add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to check for future accidental breakage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/eventpoll.c