From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-f70.google.com (mail-ed1-f70.google.com [209.85.208.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276E16B0006 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:36:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ed1-f70.google.com with SMTP id i26-v6so1956816edr.4 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j34-v6si3121986edd.367.2018.07.18.06.36.29 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:36:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Vlastimil Babka Subject: [PATCH v3 3/7] mm, slab: allocate off-slab freelists as reclaimable when appropriate Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:36:16 +0200 Message-Id: <20180718133620.6205-4-vbabka@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20180718133620.6205-1-vbabka@suse.cz> References: <20180718133620.6205-1-vbabka@suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Roman Gushchin , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Mel Gorman , Matthew Wilcox , Vlastimil Babka In SLAB, OFF_SLAB caches allocate management structures (currently just the freelist) from kmalloc caches when placement in a slab page together with objects would lead to suboptimal memory usage. For SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT caches, we can allocate the freelists from the newly introduced reclaimable kmalloc caches, because shrinking the OFF_SLAB cache will in general result to freeing of the freelists as well. This should improve accounting and anti-fragmentation a bit. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/slab.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 9515798f37b2..99d779ba2b92 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2140,8 +2140,13 @@ int __kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cachep, slab_flags_t flags) #endif if (OFF_SLAB(cachep)) { + /* + * If this cache is reclaimable, allocate also freelists from + * a reclaimable kmalloc cache. + */ cachep->freelist_cache = - kmalloc_slab(cachep->freelist_size, 0u); + kmalloc_slab(cachep->freelist_size, + cachep->allocflags & __GFP_RECLAIMABLE); } err = setup_cpu_cache(cachep, gfp); -- 2.18.0