Since slab does not use the page refcount, it can allocate and free frozen pages, saving one atomic operation per free. Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 19980419b176..3d0c1cd6bdf5 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2405,9 +2405,9 @@ static inline struct slab *alloc_slab_page(gfp_t flags, int node, unsigned int order = oo_order(oo); if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE) - folio = (struct folio *)alloc_pages(flags, order); + folio = (struct folio *)alloc_frozen_pages(flags, order); else - folio = (struct folio *)__alloc_pages_node(node, flags, order); + folio = (struct folio *)__alloc_frozen_pages(flags, order, node, NULL); if (!folio) return NULL; @@ -2641,7 +2641,7 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab) __folio_clear_slab(folio); mm_account_reclaimed_pages(pages); unaccount_slab(slab, order, s); - __free_pages(&folio->page, order); + free_frozen_pages(&folio->page, order); } static void rcu_free_slab(struct rcu_head *h) -- 2.45.2
