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@ 2016-04-12  4:50 js1304
  2016-04-12  4:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] mm/slab: fix the theoretical race by holding proper lock js1304
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From: js1304 @ 2016-04-12  4:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Christoph Lameter, Pekka Enberg, David Rientjes,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer, linux-mm, linux-kernel, Joonsoo Kim

From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Major changes from v1
o hold node lock instead of slab_mutex in kmem_cache_shrink()
o fix suspend-to-ram issue reported by Nishanth
o use synchronize_sched() instead of kick_all_cpus_sync()

While processing concurrent allocation, SLAB could be contended
a lot because it did a lots of work with holding a lock. This
patchset try to reduce the number of critical section to reduce
lock contention. Major changes are lockless decision to allocate
more slab and lockless cpu cache refill from the newly allocated slab.

Below is the result of concurrent allocation/free in slab allocation
benchmark made by Christoph a long time ago. I make the output simpler.
The number shows cycle count during alloc/free respectively so less
is better.

* Before
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=365/806
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=452/690
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=736/886
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=1167/985
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=2088/1125
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=4115/1184
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=8451/1748
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=16024/2048

* After
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=344/792
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=347/882
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=390/959
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=393/1067
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=683/1229
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=1295/1325
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=2513/1664
Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=4742/2172

It shows that performance improves greatly (roughly more than 50%)
for the object class whose size is more than 128 bytes.

Joonsoo Kim (11):
  mm/slab: fix the theoretical race by holding proper lock
  mm/slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC again
  mm/slab: drain the free slab as much as possible
  mm/slab: factor out kmem_cache_node initialization code
  mm/slab: clean-up kmem_cache_node setup
  mm/slab: don't keep free slabs if free_objects exceeds free_limit
  mm/slab: racy access/modify the slab color
  mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node
  mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts
  mm/slab: refill cpu cache through a new slab without holding a node
    lock
  mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache

 mm/slab.c | 562 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 295 insertions(+), 267 deletions(-)

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1.9.1

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2016-04-12  4:50 [PATCH v2 00/11] mm/slab: reduce lock contention in alloc path js1304
2016-04-12  4:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] mm/slab: fix the theoretical race by holding proper lock js1304
2016-04-12 16:38   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-04-14  1:56     ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-04-12  4:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] mm/slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC again js1304
2016-04-12 16:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-04-12  4:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] mm/slab: drain the free slab as much as possible js1304
2016-04-12  4:50 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] mm/slab: factor out kmem_cache_node initialization code js1304
2016-04-12 16:53   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-04-26  0:47   ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] mm/slab: clean-up kmem_cache_node setup js1304
2016-04-12 16:55   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] mm/slab: don't keep free slabs if free_objects exceeds free_limit js1304
2016-07-22 11:51   ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-07-26  7:18     ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] mm/slab: racy access/modify the slab color js1304
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node js1304
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts js1304
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] mm/slab: refill cpu cache through a new slab without holding a node lock js1304
2016-04-12  4:51 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache js1304
2016-04-12  7:24   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-04-12  8:16     ` Joonsoo Kim

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