From 52dca73f4b08ded9e397007df7a56200d2b887d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:25:06 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] epoll: comment + BUILD_BUG_ON to prevent epitem bloat This will prevent us from accidentally introducing a memory bloat regression here in the future. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong Cc: Davide Libenzi , Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/eventpoll.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 5cc010aa2e95..c30b016598a1 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ struct nested_calls { /* * Each file descriptor added to the eventpoll interface will * have an entry of this type linked to the "rbr" RB tree. + * Avoid increasing the size of this struct, there can be many thousands + * of these on a server and we do not want this to take another cache line. */ struct epitem { /* RB tree node used to link this structure to the eventpoll RB tree */ @@ -2011,6 +2013,12 @@ static int __init eventpoll_init(void) /* Initialize the structure used to perform file's f_op->poll() calls */ ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_readywalk_ncalls); + /* + * We can have many thousands of epitems, so prevent this from + * using an extra cache line on 64-bit (and smaller) CPUs + */ + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(void *) <= 8 && sizeof(struct epitem) > 128); + /* Allocates slab cache used to allocate "struct epitem" items */ epi_cache = kmem_cache_create("eventpoll_epi", sizeof(struct epitem), 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL); -- 2.39.5