mm · 1d33e1fc8dcce667a70387b666a8b6f60153d90f · Arch Linux / Packaging / Upstream / linux-rt-lts

Dimitri Sivanich authored 13 years ago

Avoid false sharing of the vm_stat array.

This was found to adversely affect tmpfs I/O performance.

Tests run on a 640 cpu UV system.

With 120 threads doing parallel writes, each to different tmpfs mounts:
No patch:		~300 MB/sec
With vm_stat alignment:	~430 MB/sec

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Name	Last commit	Last update
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Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
Makefile
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c
filemap_xip.c
fremap.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c
hugetlb.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
memblock.c
memcontrol.c
memory-failure.c
memory.c
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c
page_alloc.c
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
prio_tree.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c

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