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epoll: trim epitem by one cache line
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It is common for epoll users to have thousands of epitems, so saving a
cache line on every allocation leads to large memory savings.

Since epitem allocations are cache-aligned, reducing sizeof(struct
epitem) from 136 bytes to 128 bytes will allow it to squeeze under a
cache line boundary on x86_64.

Via /sys/kernel/slab/eventpoll_epi, I see the following changes on my
x86_64 Core2 Duo (which has 64-byte cache alignment):

	object_size  :  192 => 128
	objs_per_slab:   21 =>  32

Also, add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to check for future accidental breakage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __packed, for all architectures]
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric Wong authored and torvalds committed May 1, 2013
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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion fs/eventpoll.c
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Expand Up @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
struct epoll_filefd {
struct file *file;
int fd;
};
} __packed;

/*
* Structure used to track possible nested calls, for too deep recursions
Expand All @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ struct nested_calls {
/*
* Each file descriptor added to the eventpoll interface will
* have an entry of this type linked to the "rbr" RB tree.
* Avoid increasing the size of this struct, there can be many thousands
* of these on a server and we do not want this to take another cache line.
*/
struct epitem {
/* RB tree node used to link this structure to the eventpoll RB tree */
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/* Initialize the structure used to perform file's f_op->poll() calls */
ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_readywalk_ncalls);

/*
* We can have many thousands of epitems, so prevent this from
* using an extra cache line on 64-bit (and smaller) CPUs
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(void *) <= 8 && sizeof(struct epitem) > 128);

/* Allocates slab cache used to allocate "struct epitem" items */
epi_cache = kmem_cache_create("eventpoll_epi", sizeof(struct epitem),
0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
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