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Commit e4c6bfd2 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses



The kernel walks the VMA rbtree in various places, including the page
fault path.  However, the vm_rb node spanned two cache lines, on 64 bit
systems with 64 byte cache lines (most x86 systems).

Rearrange vm_area_struct a little, so all the information we need to do a
VMA tree walk is in the first cache line.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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