Re: [PATCH] ceph: Reorder fields in 'struct ceph_snapid_map'

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 2023-04-28 at 08:53 +0800, Xiubo Li wrote:
> On 4/28/23 02:05, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > Group some variables based on their sizes to reduce holes.
> > On x86_64, this shrinks the size of 'struct ceph_snapid_map' from 72 to 64
> > bytes.
> > 
> > When such a structure is allocated, because of the way memory allocation
> > works, when 72 bytes were requested, 96 bytes were allocated.
> > 
> > So, on x86_64, this change saves 32 bytes per allocation and has the
> > structure fit in a single cacheline.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> > ---
> > Using pahole
> > 
> > Before:
> > ======
> > struct ceph_snapid_map {
> > 	struct rb_node             node __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*     0    24 */
> > 	struct list_head           lru;                  /*    24    16 */
> > 	atomic_t                   ref;                  /*    40     4 */
> > 
> > 	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> > 
> > 	u64                        snap;                 /*    48     8 */
> > 	dev_t                      dev;                  /*    56     4 */
> > 
> > 	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> > 
> > 	/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
> > 	long unsigned int          last_used;            /*    64     8 */
> > 
> > 	/* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 6 */
> > 	/* sum members: 64, holes: 2, sum holes: 8 */
> > 	/* forced alignments: 1 */
> > 	/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
> > } __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));
> > ---
> >   fs/ceph/mds_client.h | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/ceph/mds_client.h b/fs/ceph/mds_client.h
> > index 0598faa50e2e..2328dbda5ab6 100644
> > --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.h
> > +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.h
> > @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ struct ceph_snapid_map {
> >   	struct rb_node node;
> >   	struct list_head lru;
> >   	atomic_t ref;
> > -	u64 snap;
> >   	dev_t dev;
> > +	u64 snap;
> >   	unsigned long last_used;
> >   };
> >   
> 
> This looks good to me. Thanks.
> 
> Will apply it to the testing branch.
> 
> - Xiubo
> 
> 
> 

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>