Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] slub: Update frozen slabs documentations in the source

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 01:06:42 EST


On 2023/12/5 05:41, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The current updated scheme (which this series implemented) is:
>> - node partial slabs: PG_Workingset && !frozen
>> - cpu partial slabs: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
>> - cpu slabs: !PG_Workingset && frozen
>> - full slabs: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
>
> The above would be good to include in the comments.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks for your review and suggestion!

Maybe something like this:

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 623c17a4cdd6..21f88bd9c16b 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
* by clearing the PG_workingset flag when moving out of the node
* partial list. Please see __slab_free() for more details.
*
+ * To sum up, the current scheme is:
+ * - node partial slab: PG_Workingset && !frozen
+ * - cpu partial slab: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
+ * - cpu slab: !PG_Workingset && frozen
+ * - full slab: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
+ *
* list_lock
*
* The list_lock protects the partial and full list on each node and