Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define new percpu interface for shared data -- version 3

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:57 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > >OK, but could we please have a concise description of the impact
> > >of these changes on kernel memory footprint?  Increase or decrease?
> > >And by approximately how much?
> > 
> > Depending on how linker places percpu data, the patches could
> > increase or decrease percpu section size. Data from 2.6.21-rc7-mm2:
> > 
> > On x86 SMP, the section size is increased from 0x7768 to 0x790c.
> > 1.3% increase.
> > 
> > On X86-64 SMP, the size is decreased from 0x72d0 to 0x6540.
> > 11.8% decrease.
> > 
> > On X86-64 VSMP, the size is increased from 0x72d0 to 0x8340.
> > 14.3% increase.
> > 
> > On IA64 SMP, the size is decreased from 0x8370 to 0x7fc0.
> > 2.8% decrease.
> 
> Has there been any measurable benefit yet due to tail padding?
> It would also be interesting to check the wastage/savings on another
> large
> cache architecture like S390 (which has a 256 byte cache line)

Current git with the patches applied and the default configuration for
s390 decreases the section size fof .data.percpu from 0x3e50 to 0x3e00.
0.5% decrease.

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