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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2011-05-24 20:12:15 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 11:39:21 -0400
commitde03c72cfce5b263a674d04348b58475ec50163c (patch)
treee2b035234440bcd1aa88078c3f9c8457d461ef9c /Documentation/cachetlb.txt
parent692e0b35427a088bf75d9363788c61c7edbe93a5 (diff)
mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position. It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio. This patch has two change. 1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability 2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future. In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var. It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ on all processors in the system. Don't let this scare you into
16thinking SMP cache/tlb flushing must be so inefficient, this is in 16thinking SMP cache/tlb flushing must be so inefficient, this is in
17fact an area where many optimizations are possible. For example, 17fact an area where many optimizations are possible. For example,
18if it can be proven that a user address space has never executed 18if it can be proven that a user address space has never executed
19on a cpu (see vma->cpu_vm_mask), one need not perform a flush 19on a cpu (see mm_cpumask()), one need not perform a flush
20for this address space on that cpu. 20for this address space on that cpu.
21 21
22First, the TLB flushing interfaces, since they are the simplest. The 22First, the TLB flushing interfaces, since they are the simplest. The