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    [PATCH] struct dentry: place d_hash close to d_parent and d_name to speedup lookups · 3f4bb1f4
    Eric Dumazet 提交于
    dentry cache uses sophisticated RCU technology (and prefetching if
    available) but touches 2 cache lines per dentry during hlist lookup.
    
    This patch moves d_hash in the same cache line than d_parent and d_name
    fields so that :
    
    1) One cache line is needed instead of two.
    
    2) the hlist_for_each_rcu() prefetching has a chance to bring all the
       needed data in advance, not only the part that includes d_hash.next.
    
    I also changed one old comment that was wrong for 64bits.
    
    A further optimisation would be to separate dentry in two parts, one that
    is mostly read, and one writen (d_count/d_lock) to avoid false sharing on
    SMP/NUMA but this would need different field placement depending on 32bits
    or 64bits platform.
    Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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