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Commit 99c228a9 authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein Committed by Jan Kara
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fs: group frequently accessed fields of struct super_block together

Kernel test robot reported [1] a 6% performance regression in a
concurrent unlink(2) workload on commit 60f7ed8c ("fsnotify: send
path type events to group with super block marks").

The performance test was run with no fsnotify marks at all on the
data set, so the only extra instructions added by the offending
commit are tests of the super_block fields s_fsnotify_{marks,mask}
and these tests happen on almost every single inode access.

When adding those fields to the super_block struct, we did not give much
thought of placing them on a hot cache lines (we just placed them at the
end of the struct).

Re-organize struct super_block to try and keep some frequently accessed
fields on the same cache line.

Move the frequently accessed fields s_fsnotify_{marks,mask} near the
frequently accessed fields s_fs_info,s_time_gran, while filling a 64bit
alignment hole after s_time_gran.

Move the seldom accessed fields s_id,s_uuid,s_max_links,s_mode near the
seldom accessed fields s_vfs_rename_mutex,s_subtype.

Rong Chen confirmed that this patch solved the reported problem.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/30/206



Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarkernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Fixes: 1e6cb723 ("fsnotify: add super block object type")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent d0a6a87e
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