The number of struct evtchn in a page must be a power of two. Under
some workloads performance is improved slightly by padding struct
evtchn to 64 bytes (a typical cache line size), thus putting the fewer
per-channel locks into each cache line.
This does not decrease the number of struct evtchn's per-page.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
---
v2:
- Use __attribute__((aligned(64))) for the padding.
---
xen/include/xen/sched.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index 44ea92d..a0ff9d2 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ struct evtchn
#endif
} ssid;
#endif
-};
+} __attribute__((aligned(64)));
int evtchn_init(struct domain *d); /* from domain_create */
void evtchn_destroy(struct domain *d); /* from domain_kill */
--
1.7.10.4
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