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mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses

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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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rik van Riel 2012-12-11 16:01:44 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5a0768f641
commit e4c6bfd2d7
1 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
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include/linux/mm_types.h
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@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ struct vm_region {
* library, the executable area etc).
*/
struct vm_area_struct {
struct mm_struct * vm_mm; /* The address space we belong to. */
/* The first cache line has the info for VMA tree walking. */
unsigned long vm_start; /* Our start address within vm_mm. */
unsigned long vm_end; /* The first byte after our end address
within vm_mm. */
@ -232,9 +233,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
/* linked list of VM areas per task, sorted by address */
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, see mm.h. */
struct rb_node vm_rb;
/*
@ -245,6 +243,12 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
*/
unsigned long rb_subtree_gap;
/* Second cache line starts here. */
struct mm_struct *vm_mm; /* The address space we belong to. */
pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, see mm.h. */
/*
* For areas with an address space and backing store,
* linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree, or