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* [patch 12/13] s390: add read_mostly optimization.
@ 2006-04-24 15:06 Martin Schwidefsky
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From: Martin Schwidefsky @ 2006-04-24 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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From: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>

[patch 12/13] s390: add read_mostly optimization.

Add a read_mostly section and define __read_mostly to prevent cache
line pollution due to writes for mostly read variables. In addition
fix the incorrect alignment of the cache_line_aligned data section.
s390 has a cacheline size of 256 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
---

 arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    4 +++-
 include/asm-s390/cache.h       |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
--- linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-03-20 06:53:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-04-24 16:47:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -58,9 +58,11 @@ SECTIONS
   . = ALIGN(4096);
   .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
 
-  . = ALIGN(32);
+  . = ALIGN(256);
   .data.cacheline_aligned : { *(.data.cacheline_aligned) }
 
+  . = ALIGN(256);
+  .data.read_mostly : { *(.data.read_mostly) }
   _edata = .;			/* End of data section */
 
   . = ALIGN(8192);		/* init_task */
diff -urpN linux-2.6/include/asm-s390/cache.h linux-2.6-patched/include/asm-s390/cache.h
--- linux-2.6/include/asm-s390/cache.h	2006-03-20 06:53:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-patched/include/asm-s390/cache.h	2006-04-24 16:47:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@
 
 #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN	8
 
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+
 #endif

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