The possibility of many barn operations is determined by the current number of full or empty sheaves. Taking the barn->lock just to find out that e.g. there are no empty sheaves results in unnecessary overhead and lock contention. Thus perform these checks outside of the lock with a data_race() annotated variable read and fail quickly without taking the lock.
Checks for sheaf availability that racily succeed have to be obviously repeated under the lock for correctness, but we can skip repeating checks if there are too many sheaves on the given list as the limits don't need to be strict. Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> --- mm/slub.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index c6ca9b60acd15520410ac08d252bb09e111db6f1..d078630f7211b617f390a16fa080da8a1df45355 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2801,9 +2801,12 @@ static struct slab_sheaf *barn_get_empty_sheaf(struct node_barn *barn) struct slab_sheaf *empty = NULL; unsigned long flags; + if (!data_race(barn->nr_empty)) + return NULL; + spin_lock_irqsave(&barn->lock, flags); - if (barn->nr_empty) { + if (likely(barn->nr_empty)) { empty = list_first_entry(&barn->sheaves_empty, struct slab_sheaf, barn_list); list_del(&empty->barn_list); @@ -2850,6 +2853,9 @@ static struct slab_sheaf *barn_get_full_or_empty_sheaf(struct node_barn *barn) struct slab_sheaf *sheaf = NULL; unsigned long flags; + if (!data_race(barn->nr_full) && !data_race(barn->nr_empty)) + return NULL; + spin_lock_irqsave(&barn->lock, flags); if (barn->nr_full) { @@ -2880,9 +2886,12 @@ barn_replace_empty_sheaf(struct node_barn *barn, struct slab_sheaf *empty) struct slab_sheaf *full = NULL; unsigned long flags; + if (!data_race(barn->nr_full)) + return NULL; + spin_lock_irqsave(&barn->lock, flags); - if (barn->nr_full) { + if (likely(barn->nr_full)) { full = list_first_entry(&barn->sheaves_full, struct slab_sheaf, barn_list); list_del(&full->barn_list); @@ -2906,19 +2915,23 @@ barn_replace_full_sheaf(struct node_barn *barn, struct slab_sheaf *full) struct slab_sheaf *empty; unsigned long flags; + /* we don't repeat this check under barn->lock as it's not critical */ + if (data_race(barn->nr_full) >= MAX_FULL_SHEAVES) + return ERR_PTR(-E2BIG); + if (!data_race(barn->nr_empty)) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + spin_lock_irqsave(&barn->lock, flags); - if (barn->nr_full >= MAX_FULL_SHEAVES) { - empty = ERR_PTR(-E2BIG); - } else if (!barn->nr_empty) { - empty = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - } else { + if (likely(barn->nr_empty)) { empty = list_first_entry(&barn->sheaves_empty, struct slab_sheaf, barn_list); list_del(&empty->barn_list); list_add(&full->barn_list, &barn->sheaves_full); barn->nr_empty--; barn->nr_full++; + } else { + empty = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&barn->lock, flags); -- 2.51.0
