Re: [PATCH] Cpuset: rcu optimization of page alloc hook

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 03:49:56 EST


Paul Jackson a écrit :

+
+static kmem_cache_t *cpuset_cache;
+

Hi Paul

Please do use __read_mostly for new kmem_cache :

static kmem_cache_t *cpuset_cache __read_mostly;

If not, the pointer can sit in the midle of a highly modified cache line, and multiple CPUS will have memory cache misses to access the cpuset_cache, while slab code/data layout itself is very NUMA/SMP friendly.

Eric
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