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| author | Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> | 2011-10-31 17:09:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-10-31 17:30:51 -0700 |
| commit | a1cb2c60ddc98ff4e5246f410558805401ceee67 (patch) | |
| tree | 49e3e620ff2974dc78fad8df0b343b07b75be407 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 3d470fc385defa60d9af610f05db8e7f8b4f2f5e (diff) | |
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>
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