From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> The rcu_data per-CPU variable has a number of fields that are atomically manipulated, potentially by any CPU. This situation can result in false sharing with per-CPU variables that have the misfortune of being allocated adjacent to rcu_data in memory. This commit therefore changes the DEFINE_PER_CPU() to DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() in order to avoid this false sharing.
Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index c0673c56fb1a..ab6fcfb4fe11 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct rcu_state sname##_state = { \ .name = RCU_STATE_NAME(sname), \ .abbr = sabbr, \ }; \ -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, sname##_data) +DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct rcu_data, sname##_data) RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, 's', call_rcu_sched); RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_bh, 'b', call_rcu_bh); -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
