[slubllv4 01/16] slub: Per object NUMA support

[Christoph Lameter]

Currently slub applies NUMA policies per allocated slab page. Change
that to apply memory policies for each individual object allocated.

F.e. before this patch MPOL_INTERLEAVE would return objects from the
same slab page until a new slab page was allocated. Now an object
from a different page is taken for each allocation.

This increases the overhead of the fastpath under NUMA.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/slub.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c	2011-05-05 15:21:51.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c	2011-05-05 15:28:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -1873,6 +1873,21 @@ debug:
 	goto unlock_out;
 }
 
+static __always_inline int alternate_slab_node(struct kmem_cache *s,
+						gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+	if (unlikely(node == NUMA_NO_NODE &&
+			!(flags & __GFP_THISNODE) &&
+			!in_interrupt())) {
+		if ((s->flags & SLAB_MEM_SPREAD) && cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread())
+			node = cpuset_slab_spread_node();
+		else if (current->mempolicy)
+		node = slab_node(current->mempolicy);
+	}
+#endif
+	return node;
+}
 /*
  * Inlined fastpath so that allocation functions (kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc)
  * have the fastpath folded into their functions. So no function call
@@ -1893,6 +1908,8 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(
 	if (slab_pre_alloc_hook(s, gfpflags))
 		return NULL;
 
+	node = alternate_slab_node(s, gfpflags, node);
+
 redo:
 
 	/*

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