Re: [PATCH] slub: try to get cpu partial slab even if we get enoughobjects for cpu freelist

From: JoonSoo Kim
Date: Wed Aug 15 2012 - 12:35:34 EST


2012/8/16 Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
>> s->cpu_partial determine the maximum number of objects kept
>> in the per cpu partial lists of a processor. Currently, it is used for
>> not only per cpu partial list but also cpu freelist. Therefore
>> get_partial_node() doesn't work properly according to our first intention.
>
> The "cpu freelist" in slub is the number of free objects in a specific
> page. There is nothing that s->cpu_partial can do about that.
>
> Maybe I do not understand you correctly. Could you explain this in some
> more detail?

I assume that cpu slab and cpu partial slab are not same thing.

In my definition,
cpu slab is in c->page,
cpu partial slab is in c->partial

When we have no free objects in cpu slab and cpu partial slab, we try
to get slab via get_partial_node().
In that function, we call acquire_slab(). Then we hit "!object" case
(for cpu slab).
In that case, we test available with s->cpu_partial.

I think that s->cpu_partial is for cpu partial slab, not cpu slab.
So this test is not proper.
This patch is for correcting this.

Thanks!
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