Now each architecture has the own dma_get_cache_alignment implementation.
dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
define it as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (it's used to make sure that malloc'ed
buffer is DMA-safe; the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others). So
we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.
This patch:
dma_get_cache_alignment() needs to know if an architecture defines
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or not (needs to know if architecture has DMA
alignment restriction). However, slab.h define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if
architectures doesn't define it.
Let's rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is used only in the internals of slab/slob/slub
(except for crypto).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kmem_cache->cpu_slab is a percpu pointer but was missing __percpu
markup. Add it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch is meant to improve the performance of SLUB by moving the local
kmem_cache_node lock into it's own cacheline separate from kmem_cache.
This is accomplished by simply removing the local_node when NUMA is enabled.
On my system with 2 nodes I saw around a 5% performance increase w/
hackbench times dropping from 6.2 seconds to 5.9 seconds on average. I
suspect the performance gain would increase as the number of nodes
increases, but I do not have the data to currently back that up.
Bugzilla-Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15713
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Remove the fields in struct kmem_cache_cpu that were used to cache data from
struct kmem_cache when they were in different cachelines. The cacheline that
holds the per cpu array pointer now also holds these values. We can cut down
the struct kmem_cache_cpu size to almost half.
The get_freepointer() and set_freepointer() functions that used to be only
intended for the slow path now are also useful for the hot path since access
to the size field does not require accessing an additional cacheline anymore.
This results in consistent use of functions for setting the freepointer of
objects throughout SLUB.
Also we initialize all possible kmem_cache_cpu structures when a slab is
created. No need to initialize them when a processor or node comes online.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Dynamic DMA kmalloc cache allocation is troublesome since the
new percpu allocator does not support allocations in atomic contexts.
Reserve some statically allocated kmalloc_cpu structures instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Using per cpu allocations removes the needs for the per cpu arrays in the
kmem_cache struct. These could get quite big if we have to support systems
with thousands of cpus. The use of this_cpu_xx operations results in:
1. The size of kmem_cache for SMP configuration shrinks since we will only
need 1 pointer instead of NR_CPUS. The same pointer can be used by all
processors. Reduces cache footprint of the allocator.
2. We can dynamically size kmem_cache according to the actual nodes in the
system meaning less memory overhead for configurations that may potentially
support up to 1k NUMA nodes / 4k cpus.
3. We can remove the diddle widdle with allocating and releasing of
kmem_cache_cpu structures when bringing up and shutting down cpus. The cpu
alloc logic will do it all for us. Removes some portions of the cpu hotplug
functionality.
4. Fastpath performance increases since per cpu pointer lookups and
address calculations are avoided.
V7-V8
- Convert missed get_cpu_slab() under CONFIG_SLUB_STATS
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
If the minalign is 64 bytes, then the 96 byte cache should not be created
because it would conflict with the 128 byte cache.
If the minalign is 256 bytes, patching the size_index table should not
result in a buffer overrun.
The calculation "(i - 1) / 8" used to access size_index[] is moved to
a separate function as suggested by Christoph Lameter.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when
adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be
traced to avoid false positives.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing
a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to
grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and
even then you'll be missing some.
For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the
early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form
mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code
using that to do the test.
Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators
in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Impact: refactor code for future changes
Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.
Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.
We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:
include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
include/trace/kmem.h: definition of kmem tracepoints
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Although it allows for better cacheline use, it is unnecessary to save a
copy of the cache's min_partial value in each kmem_cache_node.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Increase the maximum object size in SLUB so that 8k objects are not
passed through to the page allocator anymore. The network stack uses 8k
objects for performance critical operations.
The patch is motivated by a SLAB vs. SLUB regression in the netperf
benchmark. The problem is that the kfree(skb->head) call in
skb_release_data() that is subject to page allocator pass-through as the
size passed to __alloc_skb() is larger than 4 KB in this test.
As explained by Yanmin Zhang:
I use 2.6.29-rc2 kernel to run netperf UDP-U-4k CPU_NUM client/server
pair loopback testing on x86-64 machines. Comparing with SLUB, SLAB's
result is about 2.3 times of SLUB's. After applying the reverting patch,
the result difference between SLUB and SLAB becomes 1% which we might
consider as fluctuation.
[ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops in kmalloc() ]
Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Linus Torvalds
FUJITA Tomonori
Namhyung Kim
Ingo Molnar
Li Zefan
Christoph Lameter
Alexander Duyck
David Woodhouse
Pekka Enberg
Aaro Koskinen
Wu Fengguang
Catalin Marinas
Zhaolei
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
David Rientjes