The patch titled Subject: mm/slub: introduce two counters for partial objects has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-slub-introduce-two-counters-for-partial-objects.patch This patch was dropped because it was nacked ------------------------------------------------------ From: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub: introduce two counters for partial objects Patch series "mm/slub: Fix count_partial() problem", v3. count_partial() can hold the n->list_lock spinlock for quite a long time, which makes much trouble to the system. This series eliminates this problem. This patch (of 4): The node list_lock in count_partial() spends long time iterating in case of large amount of partial page lists, which can cause thunder herd effect to the list_lock contention. We have HSF RT(High-speed Service Framework Response-Time) monitors, the RT figures fluctuated randomly, then we deployed a tool detecting "irq off" and "preempt off" to dump the culprit's calltrace, capturing the list_lock cost nearly 100ms with irq off issued by "ss", this also caused network timeouts. This patch introduces two counters to maintain the actual number of partial objects dynamically instead of iterating the partial page lists with list_lock held. New counters of kmem_cache_node: partial_free_objs, partial_total_objs. The main operations are under list_lock in slow path, its performance impact should be minimal except the __slab_free() path which will be addressed later. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615303512-35058-1-git-send-email-xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615303512-35058-2-git-send-email-xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: James Wang <jnwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shu Ming <sming56@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.h | 4 ++++ mm/slub.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/slab.h~mm-slub-introduce-two-counters-for-partial-objects +++ a/mm/slab.h @@ -547,6 +547,10 @@ struct kmem_cache_node { #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB unsigned long nr_partial; struct list_head partial; +#if defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) || defined(CONFIG_SYSFS) + atomic_long_t partial_free_objs; + unsigned long partial_total_objs; +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG atomic_long_t nr_slabs; atomic_long_t total_objects; --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-introduce-two-counters-for-partial-objects +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -1890,10 +1890,31 @@ static void discard_slab(struct kmem_cac /* * Management of partially allocated slabs. */ +#if defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) || defined(CONFIG_SYSFS) +static inline void +__update_partial_free(struct kmem_cache_node *n, long delta) +{ + atomic_long_add(delta, &n->partial_free_objs); +} + +static inline void +__update_partial_total(struct kmem_cache_node *n, long delta) +{ + n->partial_total_objs += delta; +} +#else +static inline void +__update_partial_free(struct kmem_cache_node *n, long delta) { } + +static inline void +__update_partial_total(struct kmem_cache_node *n, long delta) { } +#endif + static inline void __add_partial(struct kmem_cache_node *n, struct page *page, int tail) { n->nr_partial++; + __update_partial_total(n, page->objects); if (tail == DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL) list_add_tail(&page->slab_list, &n->partial); else @@ -1913,6 +1934,7 @@ static inline void remove_partial(struct lockdep_assert_held(&n->list_lock); list_del(&page->slab_list); n->nr_partial--; + __update_partial_total(n, -page->objects); } /* @@ -1957,6 +1979,7 @@ static inline void *acquire_slab(struct return NULL; remove_partial(n, page); + __update_partial_free(n, -*objects); WARN_ON(!freelist); return freelist; } @@ -2286,8 +2309,11 @@ redo: "unfreezing slab")) goto redo; - if (lock) + if (lock) { + if (m == M_PARTIAL) + __update_partial_free(n, new.objects - new.inuse); spin_unlock(&n->list_lock); + } if (m == M_PARTIAL) stat(s, tail); @@ -2353,6 +2379,7 @@ static void unfreeze_partials(struct kme discard_page = page; } else { add_partial(n, page, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL); + __update_partial_free(n, new.objects - new.inuse); stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL); } } @@ -3039,6 +3066,13 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach head, new.counters, "__slab_free")); + if (!was_frozen && prior) { + if (n) + __update_partial_free(n, cnt); + else + __update_partial_free(get_node(s, page_to_nid(page)), cnt); + } + if (likely(!n)) { if (likely(was_frozen)) { @@ -3069,6 +3103,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach if (!kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial(s) && unlikely(!prior)) { remove_full(s, n, page); add_partial(n, page, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL); + __update_partial_free(n, cnt); stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL); } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags); @@ -3080,6 +3115,7 @@ slab_empty: * Slab on the partial list. */ remove_partial(n, page); + __update_partial_free(n, -page->objects); stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL); } else { /* Slab must be on the full list */ @@ -3520,6 +3556,10 @@ init_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache_n n->nr_partial = 0; spin_lock_init(&n->list_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&n->partial); +#if defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) || defined(CONFIG_SYSFS) + atomic_long_set(&n->partial_free_objs, 0); + n->partial_total_objs = 0; +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG atomic_long_set(&n->nr_slabs, 0); atomic_long_set(&n->total_objects, 0); @@ -3592,6 +3632,7 @@ static void early_kmem_cache_node_alloc( * initialized and there is no concurrent access. */ __add_partial(n, page, DEACTIVATE_TO_HEAD); + __update_partial_free(n, page->objects - page->inuse); } static void free_kmem_cache_nodes(struct kmem_cache *s) @@ -3922,6 +3963,7 @@ static void free_partial(struct kmem_cac list_for_each_entry_safe(page, h, &n->partial, slab_list) { if (!page->inuse) { remove_partial(n, page); + __update_partial_free(n, -page->objects); list_add(&page->slab_list, &discard); } else { list_slab_objects(s, page, @@ -4263,6 +4305,8 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cach if (free == page->objects) { list_move(&page->slab_list, &discard); n->nr_partial--; + __update_partial_free(n, -free); + __update_partial_total(n, -free); } else if (free <= SHRINK_PROMOTE_MAX) list_move(&page->slab_list, promote + free - 1); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-slub-get-rid-of-count_partial.patch percpu-export-per_cpu_sum.patch mm-slub-use-percpu-partial-free-counter.patch