Re: [patch] Cache align futex hash buckets

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> > Instead of 1MB hash with 256 entries in it covering 256 cachelines, you
> > have a 1MB hash with 65536(ish) entries covering 256 cachelines.
>
>
> Good (if accidental point).  Kiran, if you're going to gobble a megabyte,
> you might as well use all of it and make the hashtable larger, rather than
> just leaving 99% of that memory unused...

We chould probably also convert the list_head over to an hlist_head,
for a modest saving in size (although that's more important from a
cache footprint POV rather than improving cacheline bouncing).

Although speaking of cacheline footprint: making the hash table so
large will increase the "real" CPU cacheline footprint on your VSMP
systems, so perhaps it is not always such an easy decision.

Definitely for "normal" systems, we do not want to pad out to a
single entry per cacheline, so the current patch can not go upstream
as is.

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/