[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:56:56 +0000 (08:56 -0800)
I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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