From ffadd4d0feb5376c82dc3a4104731b7ce2794edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:05:07 -0500 Subject: SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold, introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert mm/slub.c to use them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- include/linux/slub_def.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/slub_def.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h index 2f5c16b1aac..986e09dcfd8 100644 --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h @@ -120,11 +120,24 @@ struct kmem_cache { #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE) +/* + * Maximum kmalloc object size handled by SLUB. Larger object allocations + * are passed through to the page allocator. The page allocator "fastpath" + * is relatively slow so we need this value sufficiently high so that + * performance critical objects are allocated through the SLUB fastpath. + * + * This should be dropped to PAGE_SIZE / 2 once the page allocator + * "fastpath" becomes competitive with the slab allocator fastpaths. + */ +#define SLUB_MAX_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE) + +#define SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 1) + /* * We keep the general caches in an array of slab caches that are used for * 2^x bytes of allocations. */ -extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[PAGE_SHIFT + 1]; +extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT]; /* * Sorry that the following has to be that ugly but some versions of GCC @@ -212,7 +225,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags) static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) { if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) { - if (size > PAGE_SIZE) + if (size > SLUB_MAX_SIZE) return kmalloc_large(size, flags); if (!(flags & SLUB_DMA)) { @@ -234,7 +247,7 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t flags, int node); static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) { if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && - size <= PAGE_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) { + size <= SLUB_MAX_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) { struct kmem_cache *s = kmalloc_slab(size); if (!s) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 51735a7ca67531267a27b57e5fe20f7815192f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka Enberg Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:21:33 +0200 Subject: SLUB: Do not pass 8k objects through to the page allocator Increase the maximum object size in SLUB so that 8k objects are not passed through to the page allocator anymore. The network stack uses 8k objects for performance critical operations. The patch is motivated by a SLAB vs. SLUB regression in the netperf benchmark. The problem is that the kfree(skb->head) call in skb_release_data() that is subject to page allocator pass-through as the size passed to __alloc_skb() is larger than 4 KB in this test. As explained by Yanmin Zhang: I use 2.6.29-rc2 kernel to run netperf UDP-U-4k CPU_NUM client/server pair loopback testing on x86-64 machines. Comparing with SLUB, SLAB's result is about 2.3 times of SLUB's. After applying the reverting patch, the result difference between SLUB and SLAB becomes 1% which we might consider as fluctuation. [ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops in kmalloc() ] Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- include/linux/slub_def.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/slub_def.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h index 986e09dcfd8..e217a7a68ea 100644 --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h @@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ struct kmem_cache { * This should be dropped to PAGE_SIZE / 2 once the page allocator * "fastpath" becomes competitive with the slab allocator fastpaths. */ -#define SLUB_MAX_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE) +#define SLUB_MAX_SIZE (2 * PAGE_SIZE) -#define SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 1) +#define SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 2) /* * We keep the general caches in an array of slab caches that are used for -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3b89d7d881a1dbb4da158f7eb5d6b3ceefc72810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:40:07 -0800 Subject: slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cache Although it allows for better cacheline use, it is unnecessary to save a copy of the cache's min_partial value in each kmem_cache_node. Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- include/linux/slub_def.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/slub_def.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h index 2f5c16b1aac..f20a89e4d52 100644 --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ struct kmem_cache_cpu { struct kmem_cache_node { spinlock_t list_lock; /* Protect partial list and nr_partial */ unsigned long nr_partial; - unsigned long min_partial; struct list_head partial; #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG atomic_long_t nr_slabs; @@ -89,6 +88,7 @@ struct kmem_cache { void (*ctor)(void *); int inuse; /* Offset to metadata */ int align; /* Alignment */ + unsigned long min_partial; const char *name; /* Name (only for display!) */ struct list_head list; /* List of slab caches */ #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG -- cgit v1.2.3