Hello all,
the hardirq_ctx and softirq_ctx variables are written to on init only,
but in the final kernel image they may easily get linked together with other
often-written variables in the same cacheline, so put them into __read_mostly
section since they are in the highly critical IRQ path.
Patch compiled and tested on 2.6.17-rc1-mm3.
I did not test the powerpc part, though, for obvious reasons.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3.orig/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c 2006-04-18 11:46:04.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c 2006-04-20 18:33:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
u32 stack[THREAD_SIZE/sizeof(u32)];
};
-static union irq_ctx *hardirq_ctx[NR_CPUS];
-static union irq_ctx *softirq_ctx[NR_CPUS];
+static union irq_ctx *hardirq_ctx[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
+static union irq_ctx *softirq_ctx[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
#endif
/*
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c 2006-04-20 18:47:22.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c 2006-04-20 19:19:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -379,8 +379,8 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQSTACKS
-struct thread_info *softirq_ctx[NR_CPUS];
-struct thread_info *hardirq_ctx[NR_CPUS];
+struct thread_info *softirq_ctx[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
+struct thread_info *hardirq_ctx[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
void irq_ctx_init(void)
{
--
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