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authorAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>2012-03-03 12:27:27 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-03-05 09:19:20 +0100
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x86/numa: Improve internode cache alignment
Currently cache alignment among nodes in the kernel is still 128 bytes on x86 NUMA machines - we got that X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT default from old P4 processors. But now most modern x86 CPUs use the same size: 64 bytes from L1 to last level L3. so let's remove the incorrect setting, and directly use the L1 cache size to do SMP cache line alignment. This patch saves some memory space on kernel data, and it also improves the cache locality of kernel data. The System.map is quite different with/without this change: before patch after patch ... 000000000000b000 d tlb_vector_| 000000000000b000 d tlb_vector 000000000000b080 d cpu_loops_p| 000000000000b040 d cpu_loops_ ... Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Cc: asit.k.mallick@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330774047-18597-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index 3c57033e2211..6443c6f038e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ config X86_GENERIC
config X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT
int
default "12" if X86_VSMP
- default "7" if NUMA
default X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
config X86_CMPXCHG