[PATCH 04/16] mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses

[Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>]

From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>

The kernel walks the VMA rbtree in various places, including
the page fault path.  However, the vm_rb node spanned two
cache lines, on 64 bit systems with 64 byte cache lines (most
x86 systems).

Rearrange vm_area_struct a little, so all the information we
need to do a VMA tree walk is in the first cache line.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 94fa52b28ee8..528da4abf8ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ struct vm_region {
  * library, the executable area etc).
  */
 struct vm_area_struct {
-       struct mm_struct * vm_mm;       /* The address space we belong to. */
+       /* The first cache line has the info for VMA tree walking. */
+
        unsigned long vm_start;         /* Our start address within vm_mm. */
        unsigned long vm_end;           /* The first byte after our end address
                                           within vm_mm. */
@@ -232,9 +233,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
        /* linked list of VM areas per task, sorted by address */
        struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
 
-       pgprot_t vm_page_prot;          /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
-       unsigned long vm_flags;         /* Flags, see mm.h. */
-
        struct rb_node vm_rb;
 
        /*
@@ -245,6 +243,12 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
         */
        unsigned long rb_subtree_gap;
 
+       /* Second cache line starts here. */
+
+       struct mm_struct * vm_mm;       /* The address space we belong to. */
+       pgprot_t vm_page_prot;          /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
+       unsigned long vm_flags;         /* Flags, see mm.h. */
+
        /*
         * For areas with an address space and backing store,
         * linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree, or
-- 
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