The patch titled
Subject: mm/slab: don't keep free slabs if free_objects exceeds free_limit
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit.patch
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From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/slab: don't keep free slabs if free_objects exceeds free_limit
Currently, determination to free a slab is done whenever each freed object
is put into the slab. This has a following problem.
Assume free_limit = 10 and nr_free = 9.
Free happens as following sequence and nr_free changes as following.
free(become a free slab) free(not become a free slab)
nr_free: 9 -> 10 (at first free) -> 11 (at second free)
If we try to check if we can free current slab or not on each object free,
we can't free any slab in this situation because current slab isn't a free
slab when nr_free exceed free_limit (at second free) even if there is a
free slab.
However, if we check it lastly, we can free 1 free slab.
This problem would cause to keep too much memory in the slab subsystem.
This patch try to fix it by checking number of free object after all free
work is done. If there is free slab at that time, we can free slab as
much as possible so we keep free slab as minimal.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/slab.c~mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c~mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit
+++ a/mm/slab.c
@@ -3290,6 +3290,9 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache
{
int i;
struct kmem_cache_node *n = get_node(cachep, node);
+ struct page *page;
+
+ n->free_objects += nr_objects;
for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) {
void *objp;
@@ -3302,17 +3305,11 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache
check_spinlock_acquired_node(cachep, node);
slab_put_obj(cachep, page, objp);
STATS_DEC_ACTIVE(cachep);
- n->free_objects++;
/* fixup slab chains */
- if (page->active == 0) {
- if (n->free_objects > n->free_limit) {
- n->free_objects -= cachep->num;
- list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
- } else {
- list_add(&page->lru, &n->slabs_free);
- }
- } else {
+ if (page->active == 0)
+ list_add(&page->lru, &n->slabs_free);
+ else {
/* Unconditionally move a slab to the end of the
* partial list on free - maximum time for the
* other objects to be freed, too.
@@ -3320,6 +3317,14 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache
list_add_tail(&page->lru, &n->slabs_partial);
}
}
+
+ while (n->free_objects > n->free_limit && !list_empty(&n->slabs_free)) {
+ n->free_objects -= cachep->num;
+
+ page = list_last_entry(&n->slabs_free, struct page, lru);
+ list_del(&page->lru);
+ list_add(&page->lru, list);
+ }
}
static void cache_flusharray(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct array_cache *ac)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx are
mm-slab-fix-the-theoretical-race-by-holding-proper-lock.patch
mm-slab-remove-bad_alien_magic-again.patch
mm-slab-drain-the-free-slab-as-much-as-possible.patch
mm-slab-factor-out-kmem_cache_node-initialization-code.patch
mm-slab-clean-up-kmem_cache_node-setup.patch
mm-slab-dont-keep-free-slabs-if-free_objects-exceeds-free_limit.patch
mm-slab-racy-access-modify-the-slab-color.patch
mm-slab-make-cache_grow-handle-the-page-allocated-on-arbitrary-node.patch
mm-slab-separate-cache_grow-to-two-parts.patch
mm-slab-refill-cpu-cache-through-a-new-slab-without-holding-a-node-lock.patch
mm-slab-lockless-decision-to-grow-cache.patch
mm-page_ref-use-page_ref-helper-instead-of-direct-modification-of-_count.patch
mm-rename-_count-field-of-the-struct-page-to-_refcount.patch
mm-rename-_count-field-of-the-struct-page-to-_refcount-fix-fix-fix.patch
mm-hugetlb-add-same-zone-check-in-pfn_range_valid_gigantic.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-add-comment-to-some-functions-related-to-memory-hotplug.patch
mm-vmstat-add-zone-range-overlapping-check.patch
mm-page_owner-add-zone-range-overlapping-check.patch
power-add-zone-range-overlapping-check.patch
mm-writeback-correct-dirty-page-calculation-for-highmem.patch
mm-page_alloc-correct-highmem-memory-statistics.patch
mm-highmem-make-nr_free_highpages-handles-all-highmem-zones-by-itself.patch
mm-vmstat-make-node_page_state-handles-all-zones-by-itself.patch
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