[slub p3 0/7] SLUB: [RFC] Per cpu partial lists V3

[Christoph Lameter]

V2->V3 : Work on the todo list. Still some work to be done to reduce
         code impact and make this all cleaner. (Pekka: patch 1-3
         are cleanup patches of general usefulness. You got #1 already
         2+3 could be picked up w/o any issue).

The following patchset introduces per cpu partial lists which allow
a performance increase of around ~15% if there is contention for the
nodelock (can be tested using hackbench).

These lists help to avoid per node lock overhead. Allocator latency
could be further reduced by making these operations work without
disabling interrupts (like the fastpath and the free slowpath) as well as
implementing better ways of handling ther cpu array with partial pages.

I am still not satisfied with the cleanliness of the code after these
changes. Some review with suggestions as to how to restructure the
code given these changes in operations would be appreciated.

It is interesting to note that BSD has gone to a scheme with partial
pages only per cpu (source: Adrian). Transfer of cpu ownerships is
done using IPIs. Probably too much overhead for our taste. The use
of a few per cpu partial pages looks to be beneficial though.

Note that there is no performance gain when there is no contention.

Performance:

				Before		After
./hackbench 100 process 200000
				Time: 2299.072	1742.454
./hackbench 100 process 20000
				Time: 224.654	182.393
./hackbench 100 process 20000
				Time: 227.126	182.780
./hackbench 100 process 20000
				Time: 219.608	182.899
./hackbench 10 process 20000
				Time: 21.769	18.756
./hackbench 10 process 20000
				Time: 21.657	18.938
./hackbench 10 process 20000
				Time: 23.193	19.537
./hackbench 1 process 20000
				Time: 2.337	2.263
./hackbench 1 process 20000
				Time: 2.223	2.271
./hackbench 1 process 20000
				Time: 2.269	2.301


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