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mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat
authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:09:46 +0000 (17:09 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:26:54 +0000 (12:26 -0700)
commit9116bc4fb2f96d4a3190932bf17088174da04401
tree7223f2374e39700a9ae6ddde4bdd645dc8b3daf0
parentfbb41f55c42a4f4e708c9e9af926dc6227a5b52d
mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat

commit a1cb2c60ddc98ff4e5246f410558805401ceee67 upstream.

Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. This patch is known to make a big
        difference to tmpfs performance on larger machines.

This was found to adversely affect tmpfs I/O performance.

Tests run on a 640 cpu UV system.

With 120 threads doing parallel writes, each to different tmpfs mounts:
No patch: ~300 MB/sec
With vm_stat alignment: ~430 MB/sec

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
mm/vmstat.c