Documentation: Add document for false sharing

When doing performance tuning or debugging performance regressions,
more and more cases are found to be related to false sharing [1][2][3],
and the situation can be worse for newer platforms with hundreds of
CPUs. There are already many commits in current kernel specially
for mitigating the performance degradation due to false sharing.

False sharing could harm the performance silently without being
noticed, due to reasons like:
* data members of a big data structure randomly sitting together
  in one cache line
* global data of small size are linked compactly together

So it's better to make a simple document about the normal pattern
of false sharing, basic ways to mitigate it and call out to
developers to pay attention during code-writing.

[ Many thanks to Dave Hansen, Ying Huang, Tim Chen, Julie Du and
  Yu Chen for their contributions ]

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220619150456.GB34471@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201102091543.GM31092@shao2-debian/
[3]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230307125538.818862491@linutronix.de/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407041235.37886-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/index.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/index.rst
index f53027652290..79c03bac99a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/index.rst
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ Kernel Hacking Guides
 
    hacking
    locking
+   false-sharing