Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slub: optimize alloc/free fastpath by removing preemption on/off

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:32:47 +0900
> Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > > > @@ -2398,13 +2398,15 @@ redo:
> > > >  	 * reading from one cpu area. That does not matter as long
> > > >  	 * as we end up on the original cpu again when doing the cmpxchg.
> > > >  	 *
> > > > -	 * Preemption is disabled for the retrieval of the tid because that
> > > > -	 * must occur from the current processor. We cannot allow rescheduling
> > > > -	 * on a different processor between the determination of the pointer
> > > > -	 * and the retrieval of the tid.
> > > > +	 * We should guarantee that tid and kmem_cache are retrieved on
> > > > +	 * the same cpu. It could be different if CONFIG_PREEMPT so we need
> > > > +	 * to check if it is matched or not.
> > > >  	 */
> > > > -	preempt_disable();
> > > > -	c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
> > > > +	do {
> > > > +		tid = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->tid);
> > > > +		c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
> > > > +	} while (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && unlikely(tid != c->tid));
> > > > +	barrier();
> > > 
> > > Help maintenance more if barrier is documented in commit message.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Okay. Will add some information about this barrier in commit message.
> 
> A comment in the commit message is useless. Adding a small comment
> above the barrier() call itself would be much more useful.

Okay. Will do.

Thanks.

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