Re: [PATCH RFC v2 04/20] slab: add sheaves to most caches

From: Harry Yoo

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 01:48:23 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 04:16:58PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> In the first step to replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves, enable
> sheaves for almost all caches. Treat args->sheaf_capacity as a minimum,
> and calculate sheaf capacity with a formula that roughly follows the
> formula for number of objects in cpu partial slabs in set_cpu_partial().
>
> This should achieve roughly similar contention on the barn spin lock as
> there's currently for node list_lock without sheaves, to make
> benchmarking results comparable. It can be further tuned later.
>
> Don't enable sheaves for bootstrap caches as that wouldn't work. In
> order to recognize them by SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT, make sure the flag exists
> even for !CONFIG_SLAB_OBJ_EXT.
>
> This limitation will be lifted for kmalloc caches after the necessary
> bootstrapping changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@xxxxxxxxxx>

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