From e4c6bfd2d79d063017ab19a18915f0bc759f32d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:01:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Russell King Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed