On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:52:46 +0200 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Call slowpath __slab_alloc() from within the bulk loop, as the > side-effect of this call likely repopulates c->freelist. > > Choose to reenable local IRQs while calling slowpath. > > Saving some optimizations for later. E.g. it is possible to > extract parts of __slab_alloc() and avoid the unnecessary and > expensive (37 cycles) local_irq_{save,restore}. For now, be > happy calling __slab_alloc() this lower icache impact of this > func and I don't have to worry about correctness. > > ... > > --- a/mm/slub.c > +++ b/mm/slub.c > @@ -2776,8 +2776,23 @@ bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t > flags, size_t size, > for (i = 0; i < size; i++) { > void *object = c->freelist; > > - if (!object) > - break; > + if (unlikely(!object)) { > + c->tid = next_tid(c->tid); > + local_irq_enable(); > + > + /* Invoke slow path one time, then retry fastpath > + * as side-effect have updated c->freelist > + */ That isn't very grammatical. Block comments are formatted /* * like this */ please. > + p[i] = __slab_alloc(s, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE, > + _RET_IP_, c); > + if (unlikely(!p[i])) { > + __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p); > + return false; > + } > + local_irq_disable(); > + c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); > + continue; /* goto for-loop */ > + } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html