From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Slab color isn't needed to be changed strictly. Because locking for changing slab color could cause more lock contention so this patch implements racy access/modify the slab color. This is a preparation step to implement lockless allocation path when there is no free objects in the kmem_cache. Below is the result of concurrent allocation/free in slab allocation benchmark made by Christoph a long time ago. I make the output simpler. The number shows cycle count during alloc/free respectively so less is better. * Before Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=365/806 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=452/690 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=736/886 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=1167/985 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=2088/1125 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=4115/1184 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=8451/1748 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=16024/2048 * After Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=355/750 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=452/812 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=559/1070 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=1176/980 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=1939/1189 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=3521/1278 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=7152/1838 Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=13438/2013 It shows that contention is reduced for object size >= 1024 and performance increases by roughly 15%. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 6e61461..a3422bc 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2561,20 +2561,7 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache *cachep, } local_flags = flags & (GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK|GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); - /* Take the node list lock to change the colour_next on this node */ check_irq_off(); - n = get_node(cachep, nodeid); - spin_lock(&n->list_lock); - - /* Get colour for the slab, and cal the next value. */ - offset = n->colour_next; - n->colour_next++; - if (n->colour_next >= cachep->colour) - n->colour_next = 0; - spin_unlock(&n->list_lock); - - offset *= cachep->colour_off; - if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(local_flags)) local_irq_enable(); @@ -2595,6 +2582,19 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache *cachep, if (!page) goto failed; + n = get_node(cachep, nodeid); + + /* Get colour for the slab, and cal the next value. */ + n->colour_next++; + if (n->colour_next >= cachep->colour) + n->colour_next = 0; + + offset = n->colour_next; + if (offset >= cachep->colour) + offset = 0; + + offset *= cachep->colour_off; + /* Get slab management. */ freelist = alloc_slabmgmt(cachep, page, offset, local_flags & ~GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK, nodeid); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>