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sysv,ipc: cacheline align kern_ipc_perm
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Mon, 8 May 2017 22:57:06 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 May 2017 00:15:12 +0000 (17:15 -0700)
commit5e7ecaa370479e104d3e2c071396de127bde261a
tree3596ddb9b62bef33a4fef3665b38ccc6700884ec
parentba45fd7885f862c0ca840e0d221c65b53bf1d5a9
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 df0d82094e3 ("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>
include/linux/ipc.h
include/linux/sem.h