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author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-08-03 05:12:19 (GMT) |
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committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-08-03 16:29:34 (GMT) |
commit | bdf977b37418cdf8a2252504779a7e12a09b7575 (patch) | |
tree | 0f3896a5b39c35f3018d3cb16f797ae7d6c4a66b /fs | |
parent | 3e352aa8ee2bd48f1a19c7742810b3a4a7ba605e (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-bdf977b37418cdf8a2252504779a7e12a09b7575.tar.xz |
x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline
On x86_64, percpu variables current_task and kernel_stack are used for
get_current() and current_thread_info() respectively and thus are
often used close to each other. Move definition of current_task to
kernel/cpu/common.c right above kernel_stack definition and align it
to cacheline so that they always fall into the same cacheline. Two
percpu variables defined there together - irq_stack_ptr and irq_count
- are also pretty hot and will benefit from sharing the cacheline.
For consistency, current_task definition for x86_32 is also moved to
kernel/cpu/common.c.
Putting current_task and kernel_stack into the same cacheline was
suggested by Linus Torvalds.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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