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authorRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>2012-12-12 04:01:44 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-12 05:22:25 +0400
commite4c6bfd2d79d063017ab19a18915f0bc759f32d9 (patch)
tree4f97a0303f939a7846a86c7ade2533a8e2712f29 /include
parent5a0768f641a5bad844860e67250baf0d1aa5e03c (diff)
downloadlinux-e4c6bfd2d79d063017ab19a18915f0bc759f32d9.tar.xz
mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 94fa52b28ee8..7ade2731b5d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -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