Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc3-mm1] IPC: make struct ipc_ids static in ipc_namespace

From: Pavel Emelyanov
Date: Fri Nov 23 2007 - 04:30:59 EST


Pierre Peiffer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for reviewing this !
>
> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> Pierre Peiffer wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> Pavel, what do you think of it ?
>>> Looks sane, good catch, Pierre.
>>>
>>> But I'd find out whether these three ipc_ids intersect any
>>> cache-line. In other words I'd mark the struct ipc_ids as
>>> ____cacheline_aligned and checked for any differences.
>> BTW! It might be also useful to keep ipc_ids closer to their
>> sysctl parameters.
>>
>
> It makes sense indeed.
>
> That would mean to have something like this, right ?

Yup :)

> struct ipc_namespace {
> struct kref kref;
>
> struct ipc_ids sem_ids;
> int sem_ctls[4];
> int used_sems;
>
> struct ipc_ids msg_ids;
> int msg_ctlmax;
> int msg_ctlmnb;
> int msg_ctlmni;
> atomic_t msg_bytes;
> atomic_t msg_hdrs;
>
> struct ipc_ids shm_ids;
> size_t shm_ctlmax;
> size_t shm_ctlall;
> int shm_ctlmni;
> int shm_tot;
> };
>
> After a quick look, that implies to rework a little bit procfs... othwise, it's
> not a big deal as I can see.

Thanks!

> P.
>
>>>> Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pavel
>>>
>>>> C.
>> [snip]
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