[PATCH 7/7] slub: do prefetching in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk()

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer]

For practical use-cases it is beneficial to prefetch the next freelist
object in bulk allocation loop.

Micro benchmarking show approx 1 cycle change:

bulk -  prev-patch     -  this patch
   1 -  49 cycles(tsc) - 49 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:0
   2 -  30 cycles(tsc) - 31 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
   3 -  23 cycles(tsc) - 25 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:2
   4 -  20 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:2
   8 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 19 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
  16 -  17 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
  30 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 17 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:-1
  32 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 19 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
  34 -  23 cycles(tsc) - 24 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
  48 -  21 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
  64 -  20 cycles(tsc) - 21 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:1
 128 -  27 cycles(tsc) - 27 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:0
 158 -  30 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:0
 250 -  37 cycles(tsc) - 37 cycles(tsc) - increase in cycles:0

Note, benchmark done with slab_nomerge to keep it stable enough
for accurate comparison.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com>
---
 mm/slub.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index c25717ab3b5a..5af75a618b91 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2951,6 +2951,7 @@ bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t 
flags, size_t size,
                                goto error;
 
                        c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
+                       prefetch_freepointer(s, c->freelist);
                        continue; /* goto for-loop */
                }
 
@@ -2960,6 +2961,7 @@ bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t 
flags, size_t size,
                        goto error;
 
                c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object);
+               prefetch_freepointer(s, c->freelist);
                p[i] = object;
 
                /* kmem_cache debug support */

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