The patch titled Subject: slub: avoid duplicate creation on the first object has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is slub-reduce-duplicate-creation-on-the-first-object.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/slub-reduce-duplicate-creation-on-the-first-object.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/slub-reduce-duplicate-creation-on-the-first-object.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: slub: avoid duplicate creation on the first object When a kmem_cache is created with ctor, each object in the kmem_cache will be initialized before ready to use. While in slub implementation, the first object will be initialized twice. This patch reduces the duplication of initialization of the first object. Fix commit 7656c72b ("SLUB: add macros for scanning objects in a slab"). Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slub.c~slub-reduce-duplicate-creation-on-the-first-object mm/slub.c --- a/mm/slub.c~slub-reduce-duplicate-creation-on-the-first-object +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ static inline void set_freepointer(struc for (__p = (__addr); __p < (__addr) + (__objects) * (__s)->size;\ __p += (__s)->size) +#define for_each_object_idx(__p, __idx, __s, __addr, __objects) \ + for (__p = (__addr), __idx = 1; __idx <= __objects;\ + __p += (__s)->size, __idx++) + /* Determine object index from a given position */ static inline int slab_index(void *p, struct kmem_cache *s, void *addr) { @@ -1379,9 +1383,9 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem { struct page *page; void *start; - void *last; void *p; int order; + int idx; BUG_ON(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK); @@ -1402,14 +1406,13 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem if (unlikely(s->flags & SLAB_POISON)) memset(start, POISON_INUSE, PAGE_SIZE << order); - last = start; - for_each_object(p, s, start, page->objects) { - setup_object(s, page, last); - set_freepointer(s, last, p); - last = p; + for_each_object_idx(p, idx, s, start, page->objects) { + setup_object(s, page, p); + if (likely(idx < page->objects)) + set_freepointer(s, p, p + s->size); + else + set_freepointer(s, p, NULL); } - setup_object(s, page, last); - set_freepointer(s, last, NULL); page->freelist = start; page->inuse = page->objects; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are slub-reduce-duplicate-creation-on-the-first-object.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html