From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
This patch removes the check for pfmemalloc from the alloc hotpath and
puts the logic after the election of a new per cpu slab. For a pfmemalloc
page we do not use the fast path but force the use of the slow path which
is also used for the debug case.
This has the side-effect of weakening pfmemalloc processing in the
following way;
1. A process that is allocating for network swap calls __slab_alloc.
pfmemalloc_match is true so the freelist is loaded and c->freelist is
now pointing to a pfmemalloc page.
2. A process that is attempting normal allocations calls slab_alloc,
finds the pfmemalloc page on the freelist and uses it because it did
not check pfmemalloc_match()
The patch allows non-pfmemalloc allocations to use pfmemalloc pages with
the kmalloc slabs being the most vunerable caches on the grounds they
are most likely to have a mix of pfmemalloc and !pfmemalloc requests. A
later patch will still protect the system as processes will get throttled
if the pfmemalloc reserves get depleted but performance will not degrade
as smoothly.
[mgorman@xxxxxxx: Expanded changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 43738c9..9446176 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2301,11 +2301,11 @@ new_slab:
}
}
- if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s)))
+ if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s) && pfmemalloc_match(c, gfpflags)))
goto load_freelist;
/* Only entered in the debug case */
- if (!alloc_debug_processing(s, c->page, object, addr))
+ if (kmem_cache_debug(s) && !alloc_debug_processing(s, c->page, object, addr))
goto new_slab; /* Slab failed checks. Next slab needed */
c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object);
@@ -2355,8 +2355,7 @@ redo:
barrier();
object = c->freelist;
- if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(c, node) ||
- !pfmemalloc_match(c, gfpflags)))
+ if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(c, node)))
object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
else {
--
1.7.9.2
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