On Thu, 01 Jun 2023 05:24:00 -0400, chenzhiyin wrote: > In the syscall test of UnixBench, performance regression occurred due > to false sharing. > > The lock and atomic members, including file::f_lock, file::f_count and > file::f_pos_lock are highly contended and frequently updated in the > high-concurrency test scenarios. perf c2c indentified one affected > read access, file::f_op. > To prevent false sharing, the layout of file struct is changed as > following > (A) f_lock, f_count and f_pos_lock are put together to share the same > cache line. > (B) The read mostly members, including f_path, f_inode, f_op are put > into a separate cache line. > (C) f_mode is put together with f_count, since they are used frequently > at the same time. > Due to '__randomize_layout' attribute of file struct, the updated layout > only can be effective when CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT_NONE is 'y'. > > [...] Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon. Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git branch: vfs.misc [1/1] fs.h: Optimize file struct to prevent false sharing https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b63bfcf3c65d
