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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2006-03-23 03:00:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-23 07:38:09 -0800
commit0c9e63fd38a2fb2181668a0cdd622a3c23cfd567 (patch)
tree8fdb91603347b1da2e83a095ebcaab44b2c3c237 /include/linux/file.h
parentd8733c2956968a01394a4d2a9e97a8b431a78776 (diff)
[PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout
1) Reduce the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50%. 2) Reduce the size of (files_struct), using a special 32 bits (or 64bits) embedded_fd_set, instead of a 1024 bits fd_set for the close_on_exec_init and open_fds_init fields. This save some ram (248 bytes per task) as most tasks dont open more than 32 files. D-Cache footprint for such tasks is also reduced to the minimum. 3) Reduce size of allocated fdset. Currently two full pages are allocated, that is 32768 bits on x86 for example, and way too much. The minimum is now L1_CACHE_BYTES. UP and SMP should benefit from this patch, because most tasks will touch only one cache line when open()/close() stdin/stdout/stderr (0/1/2), (next_fd, close_on_exec_init, open_fds_init, fd_array[0 .. 2] being in the same cache line) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/file.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/file.h28
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index 9901b850f2e4..9f7c2513866f 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
/*
* The default fd array needs to be at least BITS_PER_LONG,
@@ -17,10 +18,22 @@
*/
#define NR_OPEN_DEFAULT BITS_PER_LONG
+/*
+ * The embedded_fd_set is a small fd_set,
+ * suitable for most tasks (which open <= BITS_PER_LONG files)
+ */
+struct embedded_fd_set {
+ unsigned long fds_bits[1];
+};
+
+/*
+ * More than this number of fds: we use a separately allocated fd_set
+ */
+#define EMBEDDED_FD_SET_SIZE (BITS_PER_BYTE * sizeof(struct embedded_fd_set))
+
struct fdtable {
unsigned int max_fds;
int max_fdset;
- int next_fd;
struct file ** fd; /* current fd array */
fd_set *close_on_exec;
fd_set *open_fds;
@@ -33,13 +46,20 @@ struct fdtable {
* Open file table structure
*/
struct files_struct {
+ /*
+ * read mostly part
+ */
atomic_t count;
struct fdtable *fdt;
struct fdtable fdtab;
- fd_set close_on_exec_init;
- fd_set open_fds_init;
+ /*
+ * written part on a separate cache line in SMP
+ */
+ spinlock_t file_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+ int next_fd;
+ struct embedded_fd_set close_on_exec_init;
+ struct embedded_fd_set open_fds_init;
struct file * fd_array[NR_OPEN_DEFAULT];
- spinlock_t file_lock; /* Protects concurrent writers. Nests inside tsk->alloc_lock */
};
#define files_fdtable(files) (rcu_dereference((files)->fdt))