First piece: acceleration 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, because
we would have to add extra code to do all the debugging checks. And it
would not be fast anyway.
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>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2:
- Merged several patches into this
- Basically rewritten entire function...
Measurements on CPU CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz
Baseline normal fastpath (alloc+free cost): 42 cycles(tsc) 10.554 ns
Bulk- fallback - this-patch
1 - 57 cycles(tsc) 14.432 ns - 48 cycles(tsc) 12.155 ns improved 15.8%
2 - 50 cycles(tsc) 12.746 ns - 37 cycles(tsc) 9.390 ns improved 26.0%
3 - 48 cycles(tsc) 12.180 ns - 33 cycles(tsc) 8.417 ns improved 31.2%
4 - 48 cycles(tsc) 12.015 ns - 32 cycles(tsc) 8.045 ns improved 33.3%
8 - 46 cycles(tsc) 11.526 ns - 30 cycles(tsc) 7.699 ns improved 34.8%
16 - 45 cycles(tsc) 11.418 ns - 32 cycles(tsc) 8.205 ns improved 28.9%
30 - 80 cycles(tsc) 20.246 ns - 73 cycles(tsc) 18.328 ns improved 8.8%
32 - 79 cycles(tsc) 19.946 ns - 72 cycles(tsc) 18.208 ns improved 8.9%
34 - 78 cycles(tsc) 19.659 ns - 71 cycles(tsc) 17.987 ns improved 9.0%
48 - 86 cycles(tsc) 21.516 ns - 82 cycles(tsc) 20.566 ns improved 4.7%
64 - 93 cycles(tsc) 23.423 ns - 89 cycles(tsc) 22.480 ns improved 4.3%
128 - 100 cycles(tsc) 25.170 ns - 99 cycles(tsc) 24.871 ns improved 1.0%
158 - 102 cycles(tsc) 25.549 ns - 101 cycles(tsc) 25.375 ns improved 1.0%
250 - 101 cycles(tsc) 25.344 ns - 100 cycles(tsc) 25.182 ns improved 1.0%
mm/slub.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index ac5a196d5ea5..a92fdec57237 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2750,16 +2750,61 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
+/* Note that interrupts must be enabled when calling this function. */
void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
{
__kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, size, p);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free_bulk);
+/* Note that interrupts must be enabled when calling this function. */
bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size,
- void **p)
+ void **p)
{
- return __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p);
+ struct kmem_cache_cpu *c;
+ int i;
+
+ /* Debugging fallback to generic bulk */
+ if (kmem_cache_debug(s))
+ return __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p);
+
+ /*
+ * Drain objects in the per cpu slab, while disabling local
+ * IRQs, which protects against PREEMPT and interrupts
+ * handlers invoking normal fastpath.
+ */
+ local_irq_disable();
+ c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+ void *object = c->freelist;
+
+ if (!object)
+ break;
+
+ c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object);
+ p[i] = object;
+ }
+ c->tid = next_tid(c->tid);
+ local_irq_enable();
+
+ /* Clear memory outside IRQ disabled fastpath loop */
+ if (unlikely(flags & __GFP_ZERO)) {
+ int j;
+
+ for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
+ memset(p[j], 0, s->object_size);
+ }
+
+ /* Fallback to single elem alloc */
+ for (; i < size; i++) {
+ void *x = p[i] = kmem_cache_alloc(s, flags);
+ if (unlikely(!x)) {
+ __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p);
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+ return true;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk);
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