From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 05/19] slab: add sheaves to most caches
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:52:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251023-sheaves-for-all-v1-5-6ffa2c9941c0@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251023-sheaves-for-all-v1-0-6ffa2c9941c0@suse.cz>
In the first step to replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves, enable
sheaves for almost all caches. Treat args->sheaf_capacity as a minimum,
and calculate sheaf capacity with a formula that roughly follows the
formula for number of objects in cpu partial slabs in set_cpu_partial().
This should achieve roughly similar contention on the barn spin lock as
there's currently for node list_lock without sheaves, to make
benchmarking results comparable. It can be further tuned later.
Don't enable sheaves for kmalloc caches yet, as that needs further
changes to bootstraping.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 6 ------
mm/slub.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index cf443f064a66..e42aa6a3d202 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -57,9 +57,7 @@ enum _slab_flag_bits {
#endif
_SLAB_OBJECT_POISON,
_SLAB_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE,
-#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_OBJ_EXT
_SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT,
-#endif
_SLAB_FLAGS_LAST_BIT
};
@@ -238,11 +236,7 @@ enum _slab_flag_bits {
#define SLAB_TEMPORARY SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT /* Objects are short-lived */
/* Slab created using create_boot_cache */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_OBJ_EXT
#define SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT __SLAB_FLAG_BIT(_SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT)
-#else
-#define SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT __SLAB_FLAG_UNUSED
-#endif
/*
* ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized kmalloc requests.
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index f2b2a6180759..a6e58d3708f4 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -7810,6 +7810,48 @@ static void set_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s)
#endif
}
+static unsigned int calculate_sheaf_capacity(struct kmem_cache *s,
+ struct kmem_cache_args *args)
+
+{
+ unsigned int capacity;
+ size_t size;
+
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB_TINY) || s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* bootstrap caches can't have sheaves for now */
+ if (s->flags & SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * For now we use roughly similar formula (divided by two as there are
+ * two percpu sheaves) as what was used for percpu partial slabs, which
+ * should result in similar lock contention (barn or list_lock)
+ */
+ if (s->size >= PAGE_SIZE)
+ capacity = 4;
+ else if (s->size >= 1024)
+ capacity = 12;
+ else if (s->size >= 256)
+ capacity = 26;
+ else
+ capacity = 60;
+
+ /* Increment capacity to make sheaf exactly a kmalloc size bucket */
+ size = struct_size_t(struct slab_sheaf, objects, capacity);
+ size = kmalloc_size_roundup(size);
+ capacity = (size - struct_size_t(struct slab_sheaf, objects, 0)) / sizeof(void *);
+
+ /*
+ * Respect an explicit request for capacity that's typically motivated by
+ * expected maximum size of kmem_cache_prefill_sheaf() to not end up
+ * using low-performance oversize sheaves
+ */
+ return max(capacity, args->sheaf_capacity);
+}
+
/*
* calculate_sizes() determines the order and the distribution of data within
* a slab object.
@@ -7944,6 +7986,10 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache_args *args, struct kmem_cache *s)
if (s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
s->allocflags |= __GFP_RECLAIMABLE;
+ /* kmalloc caches need extra care to support sheaves */
+ if (!is_kmalloc_cache(s))
+ s->sheaf_capacity = calculate_sheaf_capacity(s, args);
+
/*
* Determine the number of objects per slab
*/
@@ -8562,15 +8608,12 @@ int do_kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *name,
set_cpu_partial(s);
- if (args->sheaf_capacity && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB_TINY)
- && !(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS)) {
+ if (s->sheaf_capacity) {
s->cpu_sheaves = alloc_percpu(struct slub_percpu_sheaves);
if (!s->cpu_sheaves) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
- // TODO: increase capacity to grow slab_sheaf up to next kmalloc size?
- s->sheaf_capacity = args->sheaf_capacity;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
--
2.51.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-23 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-23 13:52 [PATCH RFC 00/19] slab: replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 01/19] slab: move kfence_alloc() out of internal bulk alloc Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 15:20 ` Marco Elver
2025-10-29 14:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-29 15:30 ` Marco Elver
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 02/19] slab: handle pfmemalloc slabs properly with sheaves Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 14:21 ` Chris Mason
2025-10-29 15:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-29 16:06 ` Chris Mason
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 03/19] slub: remove CONFIG_SLUB_TINY specific code paths Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 22:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-29 15:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 04/19] slab: prevent recursive kmalloc() in alloc_empty_sheaf() Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2025-10-27 0:24 ` [PATCH RFC 05/19] slab: add sheaves to most caches Harry Yoo
2025-10-29 15:42 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 06/19] slab: introduce percpu sheaves bootstrap Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 15:29 ` Chris Mason
2025-10-29 15:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 07/19] slab: make percpu sheaves compatible with kmalloc_nolock()/kfree_nolock() Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 14:04 ` Chris Mason
2025-10-29 17:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 19:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-29 17:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 08/19] slab: handle kmalloc sheaves bootstrap Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-27 6:12 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-29 20:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-29 20:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 0:11 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 09/19] slab: add optimized sheaf refill from partial list Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-27 7:20 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-27 9:11 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-29 20:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 0:07 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-30 13:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 10/19] slab: remove cpu (partial) slabs usage from allocation paths Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 14:29 ` Chris Mason
2025-10-29 21:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 4:32 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-30 13:09 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 15:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-30 15:35 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 15:59 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-11-03 3:44 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 11/19] slab: remove SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 20:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-29 22:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 0:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 12/19] slab: remove the do_slab_free() fastpath Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 22:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-29 22:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-30 0:24 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 13/19] slab: remove defer_deactivate_slab() Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 14/19] slab: simplify kmalloc_nolock() Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 15/19] slab: remove struct kmem_cache_cpu Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 16/19] slab: remove unused PREEMPT_RT specific macros Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 17/19] slab: refill sheaves from all nodes Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 18/19] slab: update overview comments Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-23 13:52 ` [PATCH RFC 19/19] slab: remove frozen slab checks from __slab_free() Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-24 23:57 ` [PATCH RFC 00/19] slab: replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves Alexei Starovoitov
2025-11-04 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
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