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epoll: trim epitem by one cache line
authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:54:53 +0000 (21:54 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:56:34 +0000 (14:56 +1100)
commite63eba3b37b708b347d5557abee821c9821ffbec
tree91b4c09b588d77745ea99f7cedff51c2d005ae8b
parentfe282d4af48957aad9efdba00b25ee8865d75681
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

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