On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, JoonSoo Kim wrote:

> But, this modification adds lots of "#ifdef" and makes code less clean.
> How about *not* removing struct page *partial in struct kmem_cache_cpu?
> This introduces memory overhead and makes code bigger
> for !CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL, but, this will help to make clean code
> and we will maintain code easily.

ok.

Subject: slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable V2

cpu partial support can introduce level of indeterminism that is not wanted
in certain context (like a realtime kernel). Make it configurable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>

Index: linux/include/linux/slub_def.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/slub_def.h 2013-06-03 14:28:57.954239479 -0500
+++ linux/include/linux/slub_def.h      2013-06-03 14:28:57.950239416 -0500
@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ struct kmem_cache {
        int size;               /* The size of an object including meta data */
        int object_size;        /* The size of an object without meta data */
        int offset;             /* Free pointer offset. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
        int cpu_partial;        /* Number of per cpu partial objects to keep 
around */
+#endif
        struct kmem_cache_order_objects oo;

        /* Allocation and freeing of slabs */
@@ -104,6 +106,15 @@ struct kmem_cache {
        struct kmem_cache_node *node[MAX_NUMNODES];
 };

+static inline int kmem_cache_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
+       return s->cpu_partial;
+#else
+       return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
 void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
 void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);

Index: linux/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/slub.c        2013-06-03 14:28:57.954239479 -0500
+++ linux/mm/slub.c     2013-06-03 14:28:57.950239416 -0500
@@ -1573,7 +1573,8 @@ static void *get_partial_node(struct kme
                        put_cpu_partial(s, page, 0);
                        stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_NODE);
                }
-               if (kmem_cache_debug(s) || available > s->cpu_partial / 2)
+               if (kmem_cache_debug(s) ||
+                              available > kmem_cache_cpu_partial(s) / 2)
                        break;

        }
@@ -1884,6 +1885,7 @@ redo:
 static void unfreeze_partials(struct kmem_cache *s,
                struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
        struct kmem_cache_node *n = NULL, *n2 = NULL;
        struct page *page, *discard_page = NULL;

@@ -1938,6 +1940,7 @@ static void unfreeze_partials(struct kme
                discard_slab(s, page);
                stat(s, FREE_SLAB);
        }
+#endif
 }

 /*
@@ -1951,6 +1954,7 @@ static void unfreeze_partials(struct kme
  */
 static void put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
        struct page *oldpage;
        int pages;
        int pobjects;
@@ -1987,6 +1991,7 @@ static void put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_
                page->next = oldpage;

        } while (this_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, oldpage, page) != 
oldpage);
+#endif
 }

 static inline void flush_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
@@ -2495,6 +2500,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach
                new.inuse--;
                if ((!new.inuse || !prior) && !was_frozen) {

+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
                        if (!kmem_cache_debug(s) && !prior)

                                /*
@@ -2503,7 +2509,9 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach
                                 */
                                new.frozen = 1;

-                       else { /* Needs to be taken off a list */
+                       else
+#endif
+                               { /* Needs to be taken off a list */

                                n = get_node(s, page_to_nid(page));
                                /*
@@ -2525,6 +2533,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach
                "__slab_free"));

        if (likely(!n)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL

                /*
                 * If we just froze the page then put it onto the
@@ -2534,6 +2543,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach
                        put_cpu_partial(s, page, 1);
                        stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_FREE);
                }
+#endif
                /*
                 * The list lock was not taken therefore no list
                 * activity can be necessary.
@@ -3041,7 +3051,7 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_c
         * list to avoid pounding the page allocator excessively.
         */
        set_min_partial(s, ilog2(s->size) / 2);
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
        /*
         * cpu_partial determined the maximum number of objects kept in the
         * per cpu partial lists of a processor.
@@ -3069,6 +3079,7 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_c
                s->cpu_partial = 13;
        else
                s->cpu_partial = 30;
+#endif

 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
        s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = 1000;
@@ -4424,7 +4435,7 @@ SLAB_ATTR(order);

 static ssize_t min_partial_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
 {
-       return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", s->min_partial);
+       return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", kmem_cache_cpu_partial(s));
 }

 static ssize_t min_partial_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf,
@@ -4444,7 +4455,7 @@ SLAB_ATTR(min_partial);

 static ssize_t cpu_partial_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
 {
-       return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", s->cpu_partial);
+       return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", kmem_cache_cpu_partial(s));
 }

 static ssize_t cpu_partial_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf,
@@ -4458,10 +4469,13 @@ static ssize_t cpu_partial_store(struct
                return err;
        if (objects && kmem_cache_debug(s))
                return -EINVAL;
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
        s->cpu_partial = objects;
        flush_all(s);
        return length;
+#else
+       return -ENOSYS;
+#endif
 }
 SLAB_ATTR(cpu_partial);

Index: linux/init/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/init/Kconfig     2013-06-03 14:28:57.954239479 -0500
+++ linux/init/Kconfig  2013-06-03 14:28:57.950239416 -0500
@@ -1558,6 +1558,17 @@ config SLOB

 endchoice

+config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
+       default y
+       depends on SLUB
+       bool "SLUB per cpu partial cache"
+       help
+         Per cpu partial caches accellerate objects allocation and freeing
+         that is local to a processor at the price of more indeterminism
+         in the latency of the free. On overflow these caches will be cleared
+         which requires the taking of locks that may cause latency spikes.
+         Typically one would choose no for a realtime system.
+
 config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
        bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
        depends on EXPERT && !MMU
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