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Commit 77070eeb authored by Waiman Long's avatar Waiman Long Committed by Tejun Heo
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cgroup: Avoid false cacheline sharing of read mostly rstat_cpu



The rstat_cpu and also rstat_css_list of the cgroup structure are read
mostly variables. However, they may share the same cacheline as the
subsequent rstat_flush_next and *bstat variables which can be updated
frequently.  That will slow down the cgroup_rstat_cpu() call which is
called pretty frequently in the rstat code. Add a CACHELINE_PADDING()
line in between them to avoid false cacheline sharing.

A parallel kernel build on a 2-socket x86-64 server is used as the
benchmarking tool for measuring the lock hold time. Below were the lock
hold time frequency distribution before and after the patch:

      Run time        Before patch       After patch
      --------        ------------       -----------
       0-01 us         9,928,562          9,820,428
      01-05 us           110,151             50,935
      05-10 us               270                 93
      10-15 us               273                146
      15-20 us               135                 76
      20-25 us                 0                  2
      25-30 us                 1                  0

It can be seen that the patch further pushes the lock hold time towards
the lower end.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent d499fd41
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