Use the new function that can do allocation while interrupts are disabled. Avoids irq on/off sequences. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c 2015-08-28 14:34:59.377234626 -0500 +++ linux/mm/slub.c 2015-08-28 14:34:59.377234626 -0500 @@ -2823,30 +2823,23 @@ bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_c void *object = c->freelist; if (unlikely(!object)) { - local_irq_enable(); /* * Invoking slow path likely have side-effect * of re-populating per CPU c->freelist */ - p[i] = __slab_alloc(s, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE, + p[i] = ___slab_alloc(s, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE, _RET_IP_, c); - if (unlikely(!p[i])) { - __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p); - return false; - } - local_irq_disable(); + if (unlikely(!p[i])) + goto error; + c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); continue; /* goto for-loop */ } /* kmem_cache debug support */ s = slab_pre_alloc_hook(s, flags); - if (unlikely(!s)) { - __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p); - c->tid = next_tid(c->tid); - local_irq_enable(); - return false; - } + if (unlikely(!s)) + goto error; c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object); p[i] = object; @@ -2866,6 +2859,11 @@ bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_c } return true; + +error: + __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p); + local_irq_enable(); + return false; } 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>