Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Feng Tang
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0day reported one -22.7% regression for will-it-scale page_fault2 case [1] on a 4 sockets 144 CPU platform, and bisected to it to be caused by Waiman's optimization (commit bd0b230f) of saving one 'struct page_counter' space for 'struct mem_cgroup'. Initially we thought it was due to the cache alignment change introduced by the patch, but further debug shows that it is due to some hot data members ('vmstats_local', 'vmstats_percpu', 'vmstats') sit in 2 adjacent cacheline (2N and 2N+1 cacheline), and when adjacent cache line prefetch is enabled, it triggers an "extended level" of cache false sharing for 2 adjacent cache lines. So exchange the 2 member blocks, while keeping mostly the original cache alignment, which can restore and even enhance the performance, and save 64 bytes of space for 'struct mem_cgroup' (from 2880 to 2816, with 0day's default RHEL-8.3 kernel config) [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201102091543.GM31092@shao2-debian/ Fixes: bd0b230f ("mm/memcg: unify swap and memsw page counters") Reported-by:kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Acked-by:
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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