The patch titled
Subject: mm/slab: fix stale code comment
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-slab-fix-stale-code-comment.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/slab: fix stale code comment
This patchset implements new freed object management way, that is,
OBJFREELIST_SLAB. Purpose of it is to reduce memory overhead in SLAB.
SLAB needs a array to manage freed objects in a slab. If there is
leftover after objects are packed into a slab, we can use it as a
management array, and, in this case, there is no memory waste. But, in
the other cases, we need to allocate extra memory for a management array
or utilize dedicated internal memory in a slab for it. Both cases causes
memory waste so it's not good.
With this patchset, freed object itself can be used for a management
array. So, memory waste could be reduced. Detailed idea and numbers are
described in last patch's commit description. Please refer it.
In fact, I tested another idea implementing OBJFREELIST_SLAB with
extendable linked array through another freed object. It can remove
memory waste completely but it causes more computational overhead in
critical lock path and it seems that overhead outweigh benefit. So, this
patchset doesn't include it. I will attach prototype just for a
reference.
This patch (of 16):
We use freelist_idx_t type for free object management whose size would be
smaller than size of unsigned int. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/slab.c~mm-slab-fix-stale-code-comment mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c~mm-slab-fix-stale-code-comment
+++ a/mm/slab.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static void cache_estimate(unsigned long
* on it. For the latter case, the memory allocated for a
* slab is used for:
*
- * - One unsigned int for each object
+ * - One freelist_idx_t for each object
* - Padding to respect alignment of @align
* - @buffer_size bytes for each object
*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx are
mm-vmalloc-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
mm-slub-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
mm-slub-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting-v2.patch
sound-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
powerpc-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
tile-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
mm-introduce-page-reference-manipulation-functions.patch
mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation.patch
mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation-fix-3.patch
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