Re: tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:12:38 +0800, "Zhang, Yanmin" said:

I also think __refcnt is the key. I did a new testing by adding 2 unsigned long
pading before lastuse, so the 3 members are moved to next cache line. The performance is
recovered.

How about below patch? Almost all performance is recovered with the new patch.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <redacted>

Could you add a comment someplace that says "refcnt wants to be on a different
cache line from input/output/ops or performance tanks badly", to warn some
future kernel hacker who starts adding new fields to the structure?