From b35f1819acd9243a3ff7ad25b1fa8bd6bfe80fb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:49:07 -0800 Subject: mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation If DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled spinlock_t on x86_64 is 72 bytes. For page->ptl they will be allocated from kmalloc-96 slab, so we loose 24 on each. An average system can easily allocate few tens thousands of page->ptl and overhead is significant. Let's create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation to solve this. To make sure that it really works this time, some numbers from my test machine (just booted, no load): Before: # grep '^\(kmalloc-96\|page->ptl\)' /proc/slabinfo kmalloc-96 31987 32190 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1073 1073 92 After: # grep '^\(kmalloc-96\|page->ptl\)' /proc/slabinfo page->ptl 27516 28143 72 53 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 531 531 9 kmalloc-96 3853 5280 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 176 176 0 Note that the patch is useful not only for debug case, but also for PREEMPT_RT, where spinlock_t is always bloated. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index febc511e078a..01573fdfa186 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static void __init mm_init(void) mem_init(); kmem_cache_init(); percpu_init_late(); - pgtable_cache_init(); + pgtable_init(); vmalloc_init(); } -- cgit v1.2.3