| From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/23] rcu: Segregate rcu_state fields to improve cache locality | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:18:23 -0700 |
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From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
The fields in the rcu_state structure that are protected by the root rcu_node structure's ->lock can share a cache line with the fields protected by ->onofflock. This can result in excessive memory contention on large systems, so this commit applies ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp to the ->onofflock field in order to segregate them.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> --- kernel/rcutree.h | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index effb273..5d92b80 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -394,7 +394,8 @@ struct rcu_state { /* End of fields guarded by root rcu_node's lock. */ - raw_spinlock_t onofflock; /* exclude on/offline and */ + raw_spinlock_t onofflock ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp; + /* exclude on/offline and */ /* starting new GP. */ struct rcu_head *orphan_nxtlist; /* Orphaned callbacks that */ /* need a grace period. */ -- 1.7.8
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