• Paul Jackson's avatar
    [PATCH] memory page_alloc zonelist caching reorder structure · 7253f4ef
    Paul Jackson authored
    Rearrange the struct members in the 'struct zonelist_cache' structure, so
    as to put the readonly (once initialized) z_to_n[] array first, where it
    will come right after the zones[] array in struct zonelist.
    
    This pretty much eliminates the chance that the two frequently written
    elements of 'struct zonelist_cache', the fullzones bitmap and last_full_zap
    times, will end up on the same cache line as the performance sensitive,
    frequently read, never (after init) written zones[] array.
    
    Keeping frequently written data off frequently read cache lines is good for
    performance.
    
    Thanks to Rohit Seth for the suggestion.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
    Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
    Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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