[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 73e664c01d30..49db9286a3b4 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 #define BIO_POOL_SIZE 256
 
-static kmem_cache_t *bio_slab;
+static kmem_cache_t *bio_slab __read_mostly;
 
 #define BIOVEC_NR_POOLS 6
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static kmem_cache_t *bio_slab;
  * basically we just need to survive
  */
 #define BIO_SPLIT_ENTRIES 8     
-mempool_t *bio_split_pool;
+mempool_t *bio_split_pool __read_mostly;
 
 struct biovec_slab {
         int nr_vecs;