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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2008-12-01 09:33:43 +0100 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-12-31 18:07:38 -0500 |
commit | c2452f32786159ed85f0e4b21fec09258f822fc8 (patch) | |
tree | 50d93df47f4547a5699c87a608e85596e4c6165f /drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c | |
parent | e2b689d82c0394e5239a3557a217f19e2f47f1be (diff) | |
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shrink struct dentry
struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's
sad to see it going neglected.
With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least
for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here
(64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab.
I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline
name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This
shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the
length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on...
I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast
dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how
can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after
get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection.
At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system
with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get
nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry
will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it
would require 4.
I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the
reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast
to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and
faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are
<= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for
33-36 byte names.
Performance is a feature...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c index 737bd9484822..65e8294a9e29 100644 --- a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c +++ b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static inline unsigned long fast_get_dcookie(struct path *path) { unsigned long cookie; - if (path->dentry->d_cookie) + if (path->dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_COOKIE) return (unsigned long)path->dentry; get_dcookie(path, &cookie); return cookie; |