Move several vma_area_struct members which are rarely or never used during page fault handling into the last cacheline to better pack vm_area_struct. As a result vm_area_struct will fit into 3 cachelines as opposed to 4 cachelines before this change. New vm_area_struct layout: struct vm_area_struct { union { struct { long unsigned int vm_start; /* 0 8 */ long unsigned int vm_end; /* 8 8 */ }; /* 0 16 */ struct callback_head vm_rcu ; /* 0 16 */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 0 16 */ struct mm_struct * vm_mm; /* 16 8 */ pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* 24 8 */ union { const vm_flags_t vm_flags; /* 32 8 */ vm_flags_t __vm_flags; /* 32 8 */ }; /* 32 8 */ bool detached; /* 40 1 */ /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */ unsigned int vm_lock_seq; /* 44 4 */ struct list_head anon_vma_chain; /* 48 16 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ struct anon_vma * anon_vma; /* 64 8 */ const struct vm_operations_struct * vm_ops; /* 72 8 */ long unsigned int vm_pgoff; /* 80 8 */ struct file * vm_file; /* 88 8 */ void * vm_private_data; /* 96 8 */ atomic_long_t swap_readahead_info; /* 104 8 */ struct mempolicy * vm_policy; /* 112 8 */ /* XXX 8 bytes hole, try to pack */ /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ struct vma_lock vm_lock (__aligned__(64)); /* 128 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ struct { struct rb_node rb (__aligned__(8)); /* 136 24 */ long unsigned int rb_subtree_last; /* 160 8 */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))) shared; /* 136 32 */ struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx vm_userfaultfd_ctx; /* 168 0 */ /* size: 192, cachelines: 3, members: 17 */ /* sum members: 153, holes: 3, sum holes: 15 */ /* padding: 24 */ /* forced alignments: 3, forced holes: 2, sum forced holes: 12 */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); Memory consumption per 1000 VMAs becomes 48 pages: slabinfo after vm_area_struct changes: <name> ... <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : ... vm_area_struct ... 192 42 2 : ... Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 37 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 789bccc05520..c3755b680911 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -733,16 +733,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct { unsigned int vm_lock_seq; #endif - /* - * For areas with an address space and backing store, - * linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree. - * - */ - struct { - struct rb_node rb; - unsigned long rb_subtree_last; - } shared; - /* * A file's MAP_PRIVATE vma can be in both i_mmap tree and anon_vma * list, after a COW of one of the file pages. A MAP_SHARED vma @@ -762,14 +752,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct { struct file * vm_file; /* File we map to (can be NULL). */ void * vm_private_data; /* was vm_pte (shared mem) */ -#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME - /* - * For private and shared anonymous mappings, a pointer to a null - * terminated string containing the name given to the vma, or NULL if - * unnamed. Serialized by mmap_lock. Use anon_vma_name to access. - */ - struct anon_vma_name *anon_name; -#endif #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP atomic_long_t swap_readahead_info; #endif @@ -782,11 +764,28 @@ struct vm_area_struct { #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING struct vma_numab_state *numab_state; /* NUMA Balancing state */ #endif - struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx vm_userfaultfd_ctx; #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK /* Unstable RCU readers are allowed to read this. */ struct vma_lock vm_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; #endif + /* + * For areas with an address space and backing store, + * linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree. + * + */ + struct { + struct rb_node rb; + unsigned long rb_subtree_last; + } shared; +#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME + /* + * For private and shared anonymous mappings, a pointer to a null + * terminated string containing the name given to the vma, or NULL if + * unnamed. Serialized by mmap_lock. Use anon_vma_name to access. + */ + struct anon_vma_name *anon_name; +#endif + struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx vm_userfaultfd_ctx; } __randomize_layout; #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA -- 2.47.0.277.g8800431eea-goog