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author | Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> | 2020-10-01 18:48:41 +0300 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2020-10-06 16:29:36 +0300 |
commit | 2b0d3d3e4fcfb19d10f9a82910b8f0f05c56ee3e (patch) | |
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parent | cf785af19319f9fc0fc0c0604d259f1ef31b502f (diff) | |
download | linux-2b0d3d3e4fcfb19d10f9a82910b8f0f05c56ee3e.tar.xz |
percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path
'struct percpu_ref' is often embedded into one user structure, and the
instance is usually referenced in fast path, however actually only
'percpu_count_ptr' is needed in fast path.
So move other fields into one new structure of 'percpu_ref_data', and
allocate it dynamically via kzalloc(), then memory footprint of
'percpu_ref' in fast path is reduced a lot and becomes suitable to put
into hot cacheline of user structure.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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