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Commit 39732ca5 authored by Eric Wong's avatar Eric Wong Committed by Linus Torvalds
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epoll: trim epitem by one cache line



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: default avatarEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4a22f166
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