From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 20/27] s390/mm: have 16 byte aligned struct pages
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 11:00:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121207100007.GB5129@osiris.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121207005831.786407731@linuxfoundation.org>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:59:04PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
>
> commit 4bffbb3455372a26816e364fb4448810f7014452 upstream.
>
> Select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE on s390, so that the slub allocator can make
> use of compare and swap double for lockless updates. This increases the size
> of struct page to 64 bytes (instead of 56 bytes), however the performance gain
> justifies the increased size:
>
> - now excactly four struct pages fit into a single cache line; the
> case that accessing a struct page causes two cache line loads
> does not exist anymore.
> - calculating the offset of a struct page within the memmap array
> is only a simple shift instead of a more expensive multiplication.
>
> A "hackbench 200 process 200" run on a 32 cpu system did show an 8% runtime
> improvement.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Same as for 3.4: compare and swap double is not available for 3.6 on s390.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-07 0:58 [ 00/27] 3.6.10-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 01/27] Dove: Attempt to fix PMU/RTC interrupts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 02/27] Dove: Fix irq_to_pmu() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 03/27] drm/radeon/dce4+: dont use radeon_crtc for vblank callback Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 04/27] drm/radeon: properly handle mc_stop/mc_resume on evergreen+ (v2) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 05/27] drm/radeon: properly track the crtc not_enabled case evergreen_mc_stop() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 06/27] mm/vmemmap: fix wrong use of virt_to_page Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 07/27] mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 08/27] mm: soft offline: split thp at the beginning of soft_offline_page() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 09/27] target: Fix handling of aborted commands Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 10/27] iwlwifi: fix the basic CCK rates calculation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 11/27] ARM: Kirkwood: Update PCI-E fixup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 12/27] x86, fpu: Avoid FPU lazy restore after suspend Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 13/27] workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 14/27] mac80211: fix remain-on-channel (non-)cancelling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:58 ` [ 15/27] md/raid1{,0}: fix deadlock in bitmap_unplug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 16/27] i7300_edac: Fix error flag testing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 17/27] Revert "sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 17:22 ` Joseph Salisbury
2012-12-07 17:30 ` Joseph Salisbury
2012-12-09 23:41 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-12-07 17:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 17:43 ` Joseph Salisbury
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 18/27] bnx2x: remove redundant warning log Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 19/27] i7core_edac: fix panic when accessing sysfs files Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 20/27] s390/mm: have 16 byte aligned struct pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 10:00 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2012-12-07 15:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 21/27] net: qmi_wwan: adding more ZTE devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 22/27] net: qmi_wwan: add Huawei E173 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 23/27] ACPI: missing break Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 24/27] i915: Quirk no_lvds on Gigabyte GA-D525TUD ITX motherboard Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 4:36 ` Calvin Walton
2012-12-07 16:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 25/27] drm/i915: Add no-lvds quirk for Supermicro X7SPA-H Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 26/27] x86, amd: Disable way access filter on Piledriver CPUs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 0:59 ` [ 27/27] 8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-07 13:36 ` [ 00/27] 3.6.10-stable review Holger Hoffstaette
2012-12-08 0:46 ` Shuah Khan
2012-12-08 0:58 ` Shuah Khan
2012-12-08 5:40 ` satoru takeuchi
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