Re: [patch 4/6] SLUB: Avoid touching page struct when freeing toper cpu slab

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 23 2007 - 11:06:20 EST


On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:46 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (0008-SLUB-Avoid-touching-page-struct-when-freeing-to-per.patch)
> Set c->node to -1 if we allocate from a debug slab instead for SlabDebug
> which requires access the page struct cacheline.

this relies on node_match() which will only ever return !1 when
CONFIG_NUMA

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-08-22 17:20:28.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1/mm/slub.c 2007-08-22 17:20:33.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1517,6 +1517,7 @@ debug:
>
> c->page->inuse++;
> c->page->freelist = object[c->offset];
> + c->node = -1;
> slab_unlock(c->page);
> return object;
> }
> @@ -1540,8 +1541,7 @@ static void __always_inline *slab_alloc(
>
> local_irq_save(flags);
> c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
> - if (unlikely(!c->page || !c->freelist ||
> - !node_match(c, node)))
> + if (unlikely(!c->freelist || !node_match(c, node)))
>
> object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
>
> @@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ static void __always_inline slab_free(st
> local_irq_save(flags);
> debug_check_no_locks_freed(object, s->objsize);
> c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
> - if (likely(page == c->page && !SlabDebug(page))) {
> + if (likely(page == c->page && c->node >= 0)) {
> object[c->offset] = c->freelist;
> c->freelist = object;
> } else
>

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