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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-10-16 01:24:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:53 -0700
commitaadb4bc4a1f9108c1d0fbd121827c936c2ed4217 (patch)
tree879b7c9ba11a65958e4477c563602e08d9e6635f /mm/slub.c
parent57f6b96c09c30e444e0d3fc3080feba037657a7b (diff)
SLUB: direct pass through of page size or higher kmalloc requests
This gets rid of all kmalloc caches larger than page size. A kmalloc request larger than PAGE_SIZE > 2 is going to be passed through to the page allocator. This works both inline where we will call __get_free_pages instead of kmem_cache_alloc and in __kmalloc. kfree is modified to check if the object is in a slab page. If not then the page is freed via the page allocator instead. Roughly similar to what SLOB does. Advantages: - Reduces memory overhead for kmalloc array - Large kmalloc operations are faster since they do not need to pass through the slab allocator to get to the page allocator. - Performance increase of 10%-20% on alloc and 50% on free for PAGE_SIZEd allocations. SLUB must call page allocator for each alloc anyways since the higher order pages which that allowed avoiding the page alloc calls are not available in a reliable way anymore. So we are basically removing useless slab allocator overhead. - Large kmallocs yields page aligned object which is what SLAB did. Bad things like using page sized kmalloc allocations to stand in for page allocate allocs can be transparently handled and are not distinguishable from page allocator uses. - Checking for too large objects can be removed since it is done by the page allocator. Drawbacks: - No accounting for large kmalloc slab allocations anymore - No debugging of large kmalloc slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slub.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c63
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 0eab12bd0ac..edeb942dc8a 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2227,11 +2227,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
* Kmalloc subsystem
*******************************************************************/
-struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1] __cacheline_aligned;
+struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[PAGE_SHIFT] __cacheline_aligned;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_caches);
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
-static struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches_dma[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1];
+static struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches_dma[PAGE_SHIFT];
#endif
static int __init setup_slub_min_order(char *str)
@@ -2397,12 +2397,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache *get_slab(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
index = size_index[(size - 1) / 8];
- } else {
- if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
- return NULL;
-
+ } else
index = fls(size - 1);
- }
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
if (unlikely((flags & SLUB_DMA)))
@@ -2414,9 +2410,15 @@ static struct kmem_cache *get_slab(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
- struct kmem_cache *s = get_slab(size, flags);
+ struct kmem_cache *s;
- if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
+ if (unlikely(size > PAGE_SIZE / 2))
+ return (void *)__get_free_pages(flags | __GFP_COMP,
+ get_order(size));
+
+ s = get_slab(size, flags);
+
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s)))
return s;
return slab_alloc(s, flags, -1, __builtin_return_address(0));
@@ -2426,9 +2428,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
{
- struct kmem_cache *s = get_slab(size, flags);
+ struct kmem_cache *s;
- if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
+ if (unlikely(size > PAGE_SIZE / 2))
+ return (void *)__get_free_pages(flags | __GFP_COMP,
+ get_order(size));
+
+ s = get_slab(size, flags);
+
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s)))
return s;
return slab_alloc(s, flags, node, __builtin_return_address(0));
@@ -2473,22 +2481,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
void kfree(const void *x)
{
- struct kmem_cache *s;
struct page *page;
- /*
- * This has to be an unsigned comparison. According to Linus
- * some gcc version treat a pointer as a signed entity. Then
- * this comparison would be true for all "negative" pointers
- * (which would cover the whole upper half of the address space).
- */
if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x))
return;
page = virt_to_head_page(x);
- s = page->slab;
-
- slab_free(s, page, (void *)x, __builtin_return_address(0));
+ if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page))) {
+ put_page(page);
+ return;
+ }
+ slab_free(page->slab, page, (void *)x, __builtin_return_address(0));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
@@ -2602,7 +2605,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
caches++;
}
- for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i <= KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH; i++) {
+ for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < PAGE_SHIFT; i++) {
create_kmalloc_cache(&kmalloc_caches[i],
"kmalloc", 1 << i, GFP_KERNEL);
caches++;
@@ -2629,7 +2632,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
slab_state = UP;
/* Provide the correct kmalloc names now that the caches are up */
- for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i <= KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH; i++)
+ for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < PAGE_SHIFT; i++)
kmalloc_caches[i]. name =
kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i);
@@ -2790,7 +2793,12 @@ static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata slab_notifier =
void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags, void *caller)
{
- struct kmem_cache *s = get_slab(size, gfpflags);
+ struct kmem_cache *s;
+
+ if (unlikely(size > PAGE_SIZE / 2))
+ return (void *)__get_free_pages(gfpflags | __GFP_COMP,
+ get_order(size));
+ s = get_slab(size, gfpflags);
if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
return s;
@@ -2801,7 +2809,12 @@ void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags, void *caller)
void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
int node, void *caller)
{
- struct kmem_cache *s = get_slab(size, gfpflags);
+ struct kmem_cache *s;
+
+ if (unlikely(size > PAGE_SIZE / 2))
+ return (void *)__get_free_pages(gfpflags | __GFP_COMP,
+ get_order(size));
+ s = get_slab(size, gfpflags);
if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
return s;