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mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat
authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:09:46 +0000 (17:09 -0700)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:54:35 +0000 (06:54 -0700)
commit99426c43eb7717a40d8c863723e59fbf70f1739c
tree020f25577dfef9050d1ae485167fee6e3e89a8dc
parent4def6f6bec699437a7d7d8532f46e23a9e70dbea
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: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmstat.c