tree fbaaed00603474887953459b01e09c5b9ff7379f
parent 24b7e5819ad5cbef2b7c7376510862aa8319d240
author Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 1407366434 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1407373280 -0700

mm: rearrange zone fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines

The arrangement of struct zone has changed over time and now it has
reached the point where there is some inappropriate sharing going on.
On x86-64 for example

o The zone->node field is shared with the zone lock and zone->node is
  accessed frequently from the page allocator due to the fair zone
  allocation policy.

o span_seqlock is almost never used by shares a line with free_area

o Some zone statistics share a cache line with the LRU lock so
  reclaim-intensive and allocator-intensive workloads can bounce the cache
  line on a stat update

This patch rearranges struct zone to put read-only and read-mostly
fields together and then splits the page allocator intensive fields, the
zone statistics and the page reclaim intensive fields into their own
cache lines.  Note that the type of lowmem_reserve changes due to the
watermark calculations being signed and avoiding a signed/unsigned
conversion there.

On the test configuration I used the overall size of struct zone shrunk
by one cache line.  On smaller machines, this is not likely to be
noticable.  However, on a 4-node NUMA machine running tiobench the
system CPU overhead is reduced by this patch.

          3.16.0-rc3  3.16.0-rc3
             vanillarearrange-v5r9
User          746.94      759.78
System      65336.22    58350.98
Elapsed     27553.52    27282.02

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>