提交 a1cb2c60 编写于 作者: D Dimitri Sivanich 提交者: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat

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: NDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
上级 3d470fc3
......@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void vm_events_fold_cpu(int cpu)
*
* vm_stat contains the global counters
*/
atomic_long_t vm_stat[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS];
atomic_long_t vm_stat[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_stat);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
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