Re: [PATCH] mostly_read data section

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I suggest you use __read_mostly throughout.

You are sooo right ... Why cant we teach these computer to do the patches 
for us....

---

Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are
read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly
read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.
In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload
the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently
used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP
system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby
optimizing performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <[email protected]>

Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c	2005-06-28 19:33:02.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ extern int trap_init_f00f_bug(void);
 /*
  * Alignment at which movsl is preferred for bulk memory copies.
  */
-struct movsl_mask movsl_mask;
+struct movsl_mask movsl_mask __read_mostly;
 #endif
 
 void __devinit early_intel_workaround(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	2005-06-28 19:33:17.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -68,21 +68,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_num_siblings);
 #endif
 
 /* Package ID of each logical CPU */
-int phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
+int phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(phys_proc_id);
 
 /* Core ID of each logical CPU */
-int cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
+int cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_core_id);
 
-cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS];
+cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_sibling_map);
 
-cpumask_t cpu_core_map[NR_CPUS];
+cpumask_t cpu_core_map[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_core_map);
 
 /* bitmap of online cpus */
-cpumask_t cpu_online_map;
+cpumask_t cpu_online_map __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_online_map);
 
 cpumask_t cpu_callin_map;
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int __devinitdata tsc_sync_disabl
 struct cpuinfo_x86 cpu_data[NR_CPUS] __cacheline_aligned;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_data);
 
-u8 x86_cpu_to_apicid[NR_CPUS] =
+u8 x86_cpu_to_apicid[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly =
 			{ [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = 0xff };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(x86_cpu_to_apicid);
 
@@ -550,10 +550,10 @@ extern struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 
 /* which logical CPUs are on which nodes */
-cpumask_t node_2_cpu_mask[MAX_NUMNODES] =
+cpumask_t node_2_cpu_mask[MAX_NUMNODES] __read_mostly =
 				{ [0 ... MAX_NUMNODES-1] = CPU_MASK_NONE };
 /* which node each logical CPU is on */
-int cpu_2_node[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = 0 };
+int cpu_2_node[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = 0 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_2_node);
 
 /* set up a mapping between cpu and node. */
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ static inline void unmap_cpu_to_node(int
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
-u8 cpu_2_logical_apicid[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
+u8 cpu_2_logical_apicid[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID };
 
 static void map_cpu_to_logical_apicid(void)
 {
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c	2005-06-28 19:33:11.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c	2005-06-28 19:36:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include "mach_timer.h"
 #include <asm/hpet.h>
 
-static unsigned long hpet_usec_quotient;	/* convert hpet clks to usec */
+static unsigned long __read_mostly hpet_usec_quotient;	/* convert hpet clks to usec */
 static unsigned long tsc_hpet_quotient;		/* convert tsc to hpet clks */
 static unsigned long hpet_last; 	/* hpet counter value at last tick*/
 static unsigned long last_tsc_low;	/* lsb 32 bits of Time Stamp Counter */
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ static int hpet_resume(void)
 /************************************************************/
 
 /* tsc timer_opts struct */
-static struct timer_opts timer_hpet = {
+static struct timer_opts timer_hpet __read_mostly = {
 	.name = 		"hpet",
 	.mark_offset =		mark_offset_hpet,
 	.get_offset =		get_offset_hpet,
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-06-28 19:33:02.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ SECTIONS
 	*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
   }
 
+  /* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
+  . = ALIGN(32);
+  .data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.read_mostly) }
   _edata = .;			/* End of data section */
 
   . = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);	/* init_task */
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-06-28 19:33:03.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ SECTIONS
   .data.cacheline_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
   }
+  . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);
+  .data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+  	*(.data.read_mostly)
+  }
 
 #define VSYSCALL_ADDR (-10*1024*1024)
 #define VSYSCALL_PHYS_ADDR ((LOADADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) + SIZEOF(.data.cacheline_aligned) + 4095) & ~(4095))
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/fs/bio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/fs/bio.c	2005-06-28 19:33:06.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/fs/bio.c	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ struct biovec_slab {
  */
 
 #define BV(x) { .nr_vecs = x, .name = "biovec-"__stringify(x) }
-static struct biovec_slab bvec_slabs[BIOVEC_NR_POOLS] = {
+static struct biovec_slab bvec_slabs[BIOVEC_NR_POOLS] __read_mostly = {
 	BV(1), BV(4), BV(16), BV(64), BV(128), BV(BIO_MAX_PAGES),
 };
 #undef BV
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/include/linux/cache.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/include/linux/cache.h	2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/include/linux/cache.h	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
 #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+#else
+#define __read_mostly
+#endif
+
 #ifndef ____cacheline_aligned
 #define ____cacheline_aligned __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES)))
 #endif
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/kernel/profile.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/kernel/profile.c	2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/kernel/profile.c	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ struct profile_hit {
 #define NR_PROFILE_GRP		(NR_PROFILE_HIT/PROFILE_GRPSZ)
 
 /* Oprofile timer tick hook */
-int (*timer_hook)(struct pt_regs *);
+int (*timer_hook)(struct pt_regs *) __read_mostly;
 
 static atomic_t *prof_buffer;
 static unsigned long prof_len, prof_shift;
-static int prof_on;
+static int prof_on __read_mostly;
 static cpumask_t prof_cpu_mask = CPU_MASK_ALL;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct profile_hit *[2], cpu_profile_hits);
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/lib/radix-tree.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/lib/radix-tree.c	2005-06-28 19:33:18.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/lib/radix-tree.c	2005-06-28 19:33:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct radix_tree_path {
 #define RADIX_TREE_INDEX_BITS  (8 /* CHAR_BIT */ * sizeof(unsigned long))
 #define RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH (RADIX_TREE_INDEX_BITS/RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT + 2)
 
-static unsigned long height_to_maxindex[RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH];
+static unsigned long height_to_maxindex[RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH] __read_mostly;
 
 /*
  * Radix tree node cache.
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	2005-06-28 19:33:19.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	2005-06-28 19:35:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_lock);
 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(i8253_lock);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(i8253_lock);
 
-struct timer_opts *cur_timer = &timer_none;
+struct timer_opts *cur_timer __read_mostly = &timer_none;
 
 /*
  * This is a special lock that is owned by the CPU and holds the index
Index: linux-2.6.12-mm2/drivers/char/random.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12-mm2.orig/drivers/char/random.c	2005-06-17 19:48:29.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm2/drivers/char/random.c	2005-06-28 19:42:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static int random_write_wakeup_thresh = 
  * samples to avoid wasting CPU time and reduce lock contention.
  */
 
-static int trickle_thresh = INPUT_POOL_WORDS * 28;
+static int trickle_thresh __read_mostly = INPUT_POOL_WORDS * 28;
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, trickle_count) = 0;
 
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