From: Christoph Lameter Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:43:02 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] Reorder ZVCs according to cacheline X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~274^2~469 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51ed4491271be8c56bdb2a03481ed34ea4984bc2;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] Reorder ZVCs according to cacheline The global and per zone counter sums are in arrays of longs. Reorder the ZVCs so that the most frequently used ZVCs are put into the same cacheline. That way calculations of the global, node and per zone vm state touches only a single cacheline. This is mostly important for 64 bit systems were one 128 byte cacheline takes only 8 longs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 824279c788..d15b1f68ae 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct zone_padding { #endif enum zone_stat_item { + /* First 128 byte cacheline (assuming 64 bit words) */ NR_FREE_PAGES, NR_INACTIVE, NR_ACTIVE, @@ -54,11 +55,12 @@ enum zone_stat_item { NR_FILE_MAPPED, /* pagecache pages mapped into pagetables. only modified from process context */ NR_FILE_PAGES, - NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE, - NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, - NR_PAGETABLE, /* used for pagetables */ NR_FILE_DIRTY, NR_WRITEBACK, + /* Second 128 byte cacheline */ + NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE, + NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, + NR_PAGETABLE, /* used for pagetables */ NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, /* NFS unstable pages */ NR_BOUNCE, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE, diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 2386716f17..2ee7ec5e00 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -447,11 +447,11 @@ static const char * const vmstat_text[] = { "nr_anon_pages", "nr_mapped", "nr_file_pages", + "nr_dirty", + "nr_writeback", "nr_slab_reclaimable", "nr_slab_unreclaimable", "nr_page_table_pages", - "nr_dirty", - "nr_writeback", "nr_unstable", "nr_bounce", "nr_vmscan_write",