There are some slab caches around that are rarely used and which are not
performance critical. Add a new SLAB_LOWMEM option to reduce the memory
requirements of such slabs. SLAB_LOWMEM caches will keep no empty slabs
around, have no shared or alien caches and will have a small per cpu
queue of 5 objects.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 2 ++
mm/slub.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slab.h 2010-10-05 13:40:04.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h 2010-10-05 13:40:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,12 +17,14 @@
* The ones marked DEBUG are only valid if CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG is set.
*/
#define SLAB_DEBUG_FREE 0x00000100UL /* DEBUG: Perform (expensive) checks on free */
+#define SLAB_LOWMEM 0x00000200UL /* Reduce memory usage of this slab */
#define SLAB_RED_ZONE 0x00000400UL /* DEBUG: Red zone objs in a cache */
#define SLAB_POISON 0x00000800UL /* DEBUG: Poison objects */
#define SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN 0x00002000UL /* Align objs on cache lines */
#define SLAB_CACHE_DMA 0x00004000UL /* Use GFP_DMA memory */
#define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */
#define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */
+
/*
* SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
*
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2010-10-05 13:40:04.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2010-10-05 13:40:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -2829,12 +2829,20 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_c
* The larger the object size is, the more pages we want on the partial
* list to avoid pounding the page allocator excessively.
*/
- set_min_partial(s, ilog2(s->size));
+ if (flags & SLAB_LOWMEM)
+ set_min_partial(s, 0);
+ else
+ set_min_partial(s, ilog2(s->size));
+
s->refcount = 1;
if (!init_kmem_cache_nodes(s))
goto error;
- s->queue = initial_queue_size(s->size);
+ if (flags & SLAB_LOWMEM)
+ s->queue = 5;
+ else
+ s->queue = initial_queue_size(s->size);
+
s->batch = (s->queue + 1) / 2;
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -2879,7 +2887,9 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_c
if (alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(s)) {
s->shared_queue_sysfs = 0;
- if (nr_cpu_ids > 1 && s->size < PAGE_SIZE) {
+ if (!(flags & SLAB_LOWMEM) &&
+ nr_cpu_ids > 1 &&
+ s->size < PAGE_SIZE) {
s->shared_queue_sysfs = 10 * s->batch;
alloc_shared_caches(s);
}
@@ -3788,7 +3798,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
kmem_cache_open(kmem_cache_node, "kmem_cache_node",
sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node),
- 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_LOWMEM, NULL);
hotplug_memory_notifier(slab_memory_callback, SLAB_CALLBACK_PRI);
@@ -3797,7 +3807,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
temp_kmem_cache = kmem_cache;
kmem_cache_open(kmem_cache, "kmem_cache", kmem_size,
- 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_LOWMEM, NULL);
kmem_cache = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_NOWAIT);
memcpy(kmem_cache, temp_kmem_cache, kmem_size);
@@ -3906,12 +3916,9 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
if (s && s->size) {
char *name = kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT,
"dma-kmalloc-%d", s->objsize);
-
BUG_ON(!name);
kmalloc_dma_caches[i] = create_kmalloc_cache(name,
- s->objsize, SLAB_CACHE_DMA);
- /* DMA caches are rarely used. Reduce memory consumption */
- kmalloc_dma_caches[i]->shared_queue_sysfs = 0;
+ s->objsize, SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_LOWMEM);
}
}
#endif
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