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authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>2012-08-01 03:44:00 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-08-01 05:42:45 +0400
commit5091b74a95d447e34530e713a8971450a45498b3 (patch)
tree7761a47736e539f829e1d9fe18e11bb7109ec76b /mm
parent072bb0aa5e062902968c5c1007bba332c7820cf4 (diff)
downloadlinux-5091b74a95d447e34530e713a8971450a45498b3.tar.xz
mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
This patch removes the check for pfmemalloc from the alloc hotpath and puts the logic after the election of a new per cpu slab. For a pfmemalloc page we do not use the fast path but force the use of the slow path which is also used for the debug case. This has the side-effect of weakening pfmemalloc processing in the following way; 1. A process that is allocating for network swap calls __slab_alloc. pfmemalloc_match is true so the freelist is loaded and c->freelist is now pointing to a pfmemalloc page. 2. A process that is attempting normal allocations calls slab_alloc, finds the pfmemalloc page on the freelist and uses it because it did not check pfmemalloc_match() The patch allows non-pfmemalloc allocations to use pfmemalloc pages with the kmalloc slabs being the most vunerable caches on the grounds they are most likely to have a mix of pfmemalloc and !pfmemalloc requests. A later patch will still protect the system as processes will get throttled if the pfmemalloc reserves get depleted but performance will not degrade as smoothly. [mgorman@suse.de: Expanded changelog] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index c3f05e1599c0..8f78e2577031 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2281,11 +2281,11 @@ new_slab:
}
page = c->page;
- if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s)))
+ if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s) && pfmemalloc_match(page, gfpflags)))
goto load_freelist;
/* Only entered in the debug case */
- if (!alloc_debug_processing(s, page, freelist, addr))
+ if (kmem_cache_debug(s) && !alloc_debug_processing(s, page, freelist, addr))
goto new_slab; /* Slab failed checks. Next slab needed */
deactivate_slab(s, page, get_freepointer(s, freelist));
@@ -2337,8 +2337,7 @@ redo:
object = c->freelist;
page = c->page;
- if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node) ||
- !pfmemalloc_match(page, gfpflags)))
+ if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node)))
object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
else {