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* [PATCH] memory page_alloc zonelist caching speedup aligncache
@ 2006-10-18  8:14 Paul Jackson, Paul Jackson
  2006-10-18 15:35 ` Rohit Seth
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jackson, Paul Jackson @ 2006-10-18  8:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: nickpiggin, ak, linux-mm, holt, mbligh, rientjes, rohitseth,
	menage, Paul Jackson, clameter

Avoid frequent writes to the zonelist zones[] array, which are
read-only after initial setup, by putting the zonelist_cache on
a separate cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

---

 include/linux/mmzone.h |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 2.6.19-rc2-mm1.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h	2006-10-17 17:19:22.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.19-rc2-mm1/include/linux/mmzone.h	2006-10-17 17:31:31.000000000 -0700
@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ struct zonelist {
 	struct zonelist_cache *zlcache_ptr;		     // NULL or &zlcache
 	struct zone *zones[MAX_ZONES_PER_ZONELIST + 1];      // NULL delimited
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-	struct zonelist_cache zlcache;			     // optional ...
+	/* Keep written zonelist_cache off read-only zones[] cache lines */
+	struct zonelist_cache zlcache ____cacheline_aligned; // optional ...
 #endif
 };
 

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