The patch titled
Subject: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-slub-optimise-the-slub-fast-path-to-avoid-pfmemalloc-checks.patch
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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
This patch removes the check for pfmemalloc from the alloc hotpath and
puts the logic after the election of a new per cpu slab. For a pfmemalloc
page we do not use the fast path but force the use of the slow path which
is also used for the debug case.
This has the side-effect of weakening pfmemalloc processing in the
following way;
1. A process that is allocating for network swap calls __slab_alloc.
pfmemalloc_match is true so the freelist is loaded and c->freelist is
now pointing to a pfmemalloc page.
2. A process that is attempting normal allocations calls slab_alloc,
finds the pfmemalloc page on the freelist and uses it because it did
not check pfmemalloc_match()
The patch allows non-pfmemalloc allocations to use pfmemalloc pages with
the kmalloc slabs being the most vunerable caches on the grounds they
are most likely to have a mix of pfmemalloc and !pfmemalloc requests. A
later patch will still protect the system as processes will get throttled
if the pfmemalloc reserves get depleted but performance will not degrade
as smoothly.
[mgorman@xxxxxxx: Expanded changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/slub.c~mm-slub-optimise-the-slub-fast-path-to-avoid-pfmemalloc-checks mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-optimise-the-slub-fast-path-to-avoid-pfmemalloc-checks
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -2271,11 +2271,11 @@ new_slab:
}
page = c->page;
- if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s)))
+ if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s) && pfmemalloc_match(page, gfpflags)))
goto load_freelist;
/* Only entered in the debug case */
- if (!alloc_debug_processing(s, page, freelist, addr))
+ if (kmem_cache_debug(s) && !alloc_debug_processing(s, page, freelist, addr))
goto new_slab; /* Slab failed checks. Next slab needed */
deactivate_slab(s, page, get_freepointer(s, freelist));
@@ -2327,8 +2327,7 @@ redo:
object = c->freelist;
page = c->page;
- if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node)
- !pfmemalloc_match(page, gfpflags)))
+ if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node)))
object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
else {
_
Subject: Subject: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
Patches currently in -mm which might be from cl@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
mm-slb-add-knowledge-of-pfmemalloc-reserve-pages.patch
mm-slub-optimise-the-slub-fast-path-to-avoid-pfmemalloc-checks.patch
mm-introduce-__gfp_memalloc-to-allow-access-to-emergency-reserves.patch
mm-allow-pf_memalloc-from-softirq-context.patch
mm-only-set-page-pfmemalloc-when-alloc_no_watermarks-was-used.patch
mm-ignore-mempolicies-when-using-alloc_no_watermark.patch
net-introduce-sk_gfp_atomic-to-allow-addition-of-gfp-flags-depending-on-the-individual-socket.patch
netvm-allow-the-use-of-__gfp_memalloc-by-specific-sockets.patch
netvm-allow-skb-allocation-to-use-pfmemalloc-reserves.patch
netvm-propagate-page-pfmemalloc-to-skb.patch
netvm-propagate-page-pfmemalloc-from-skb_alloc_page-to-skb.patch
netvm-set-pf_memalloc-as-appropriate-during-skb-processing.patch
mm-micro-optimise-slab-to-avoid-a-function-call.patch
nbd-set-sock_memalloc-for-access-to-pfmemalloc-reserves.patch
mm-throttle-direct-reclaimers-if-pf_memalloc-reserves-are-low-and-swap-is-backed-by-network-storage.patch
mm-account-for-the-number-of-times-direct-reclaimers-get-throttled.patch
shmem-provide-vm_ops-when-also-providing-a-mem-policy.patch
tmpfs-interleave-the-starting-node-of-dev-shmem.patch
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