sysv,ipc: cacheline align kern_ipc_perm
Assign 'struct kern_ipc_perm' its own cacheline to avoid false sharing with sysv ipc calls. While the structure itself is rather read-mostly throughout the lifespan of ipc, the spinlock causes most of the invalidations. One example is commit 31a7c474 ("ipc/sem.c: cacheline align the ipc spinlock for semaphores"). Therefore, extend this to all ipc. The effect of cacheline alignment on sems can be seen in sembench, which deals mostly with semtimedop wait/wakes is seen to improve raw throughput (worker loops) between 8 to 12% on a 24-core x86 with over 4 threads. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486673582-6979-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Please register or sign in to comment