Re: [PATCH] mm: slub: remove preemption disabling from put_cpu_partial

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 8:40 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/21 1:19 PM, Muchun Song wrote:
> > The commit d6e0b7fa1186 ("slub: make dead caches discard free slabs
> > immediately") introduced those logic to speed up the destruction of
> > per-memcg kmem caches, because kmem caches created for a memory
> > cgroup are only destroyed after the last page charged to the cgroup
> > is freed at that time. But since commit 9855609bde03 ("mm: memcg/slab:
> > use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations), we
> > do not have per-memcg kmem caches anymore. Are those code pointless?
> > No, the kmem_cache->cpu_partial can be set to zero by 'echo 0 > /sys/
> > kernel/slab/*/cpu_partial'. In this case, the slab page will be put
> > into cpu partial list and then moved to node list (because
> > slub_cpu_partial() returns zero). However, we can skip putting the
> > slab page to cpu partial list and just move it to node list directly.
> > We can adjust the condition of kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial() to
> > slub_cpu_partial() in __slab_free() and remove those code from
> > put_cpu_partial() for simplification.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Please check again current mmotm/next if this still applies, I think it
> shouldn't anymore. Thanks.
>

You are right. I didn't see it before. I guess it was merged
recently. But thanks for your reminder.




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