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mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses
authorRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:04:23 +0000 (14:04 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:15:33 +0000 (16:15 +1100)
commitee87af1ad5199af598650211fd84e123a157827d
treec6328c94c0c2cf78140af0c424a59b3334db1a4a
parent044f60eb6177cc23dcf1b806b07efd09661d21d0
mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses

The kernel walks the VMA rbtree in various places, including the page
fault path.  However, the vm_rb node spanned two cache lines, on 64 bit
systems with 64 byte cache lines (most x86 systems).

Rearrange vm_area_struct a little, so all the information we need to do a
VMA tree walk is in the first cache line.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm_types.h