First piece: accelleration of retrieval of per cpu objects If we are allocating lots of objects then it is advantageous to disable interrupts and avoid the this_cpu_cmpxchg() operation to get these objects faster. Note that we cannot do the fast operation if debugging is enabled. Note also that the requirement of having interrupts disabled avoids having to do processor flag operations. Allocate as many objects as possible in the fast way and then fall back to the generic implementation for the rest of the objects. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c +++ linux/mm/slub.c @@ -2761,7 +2761,32 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free_bulk); bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size, void **p) { - return kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p); + if (!kmem_cache_debug(s)) { + struct kmem_cache_cpu *c; + + /* Drain objects in the per cpu slab */ + local_irq_disable(); + c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); + + while (size) { + void *object = c->freelist; + + if (!object) + break; + + c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object); + *p++ = object; + size--; + + if (unlikely(flags & __GFP_ZERO)) + memset(object, 0, s->object_size); + } + c->tid = next_tid(c->tid); + + local_irq_enable(); + } + + return __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk); -- 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>