The patch titled SLAB: don't allocate empty shared caches has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was slab-dont-allocate-empty-shared-caches.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: SLAB: don't allocate empty shared caches From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We can avoid allocating empty shared caches and avoid unecessary check of cache->limit. We save some memory. We avoid bringing into CPU cache unecessary cache lines. All accesses to l3->shared are already checking NULL pointers so this patch is safe. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~slab-dont-allocate-empty-shared-caches mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~slab-dont-allocate-empty-shared-caches +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -1223,19 +1223,20 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru */ list_for_each_entry(cachep, &cache_chain, next) { struct array_cache *nc; - struct array_cache *shared; + struct array_cache *shared = NULL; struct array_cache **alien = NULL; nc = alloc_arraycache(node, cachep->limit, cachep->batchcount); if (!nc) goto bad; - shared = alloc_arraycache(node, + if (cachep->shared) { + shared = alloc_arraycache(node, cachep->shared * cachep->batchcount, 0xbaadf00d); - if (!shared) - goto bad; - + if (!shared) + goto bad; + } if (use_alien_caches) { alien = alloc_alien_cache(node, cachep->limit); if (!alien) @@ -1317,8 +1318,8 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru shared = l3->shared; if (shared) { - free_block(cachep, l3->shared->entry, - l3->shared->avail, node); + free_block(cachep, shared->entry, + shared->avail, node); l3->shared = NULL; } @@ -3870,12 +3871,15 @@ static int alloc_kmemlist(struct kmem_ca goto fail; } - new_shared = alloc_arraycache(node, + new_shared = NULL; + if (cachep->shared) { + new_shared = alloc_arraycache(node, cachep->shared*cachep->batchcount, 0xbaadf00d); - if (!new_shared) { - free_alien_cache(new_alien); - goto fail; + if (!new_shared) { + free_alien_cache(new_alien); + goto fail; + } } l3 = cachep->nodelists[node]; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch optimize-timespec_trunc.patch procfs-reorder-struct-pid_dentry-to-save-space-on-64bit-archs-and-constify-them.patch vfs-delay-the-dentry-name-generation-on-sockets-and.patch getrusage-fill-ru_inblock-and-ru_oublock-fields-if-possible.patch time-smp-friendly-alignment-of-struct-clocksource.patch ignore-stolen-time-in-the-softlockup-watchdog.patch splice-and-readahead-interaction.patch make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits.patch speedup-divides-by-cpu_power-in-scheduler.patch futex-new-private-futexes.patch lguest-the-host-code-vs-futex-new-private-futexes.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