Anyways the statistics in slub should be low impact and able to be placed anywhere. So I think we need this patch to avoid the preemption checks begin triggered.
Subject: SLUB: Use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics Statistics are not critical to the operation of the allocation but should also not cause too much overhead. __this_cpu_inc now checks if preemption is disabled and triggers. Use raw_cpu_inc to avoid the checks. Using this_cpu_ops may cause interrupt disable/enable sequences on various arches which may significantly impact allocator performance. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> Index: linux/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c 2014-03-07 14:10:30.142777022 -0600 +++ linux/mm/slub.c 2014-03-18 09:39:15.675035324 -0500 @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static inline void stat(const struct kmem_cache *s, enum stat_item si) { #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_STATS - __this_cpu_inc(s->cpu_slab->stat[si]); + raw_cpu_inc(s->cpu_slab->stat[si]); #endif } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/