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* Common11r [00/20] Sl[auo]b: Common code rework V11
@ 2012-08-09 13:56 Christoph Lameter
  2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [01/20] slub: Add debugging to verify correct cache use on kmem_cache_free() Christoph Lameter
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From: Christoph Lameter @ 2012-08-09 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joonsoo Kim; +Cc: Glauber Costa, Pekka Enberg, linux-mm, David Rientjes

Patches refreshed.

V10->V11
- Fix issues pointed out by Joonsoo and Glauber
- Simplify Slab bootstrap further

V9->V10
- Memory leak was a false alarm
- Resequence patches to make it easier
  to apply.
- Do more boot sequence consolidation in slab/slub.
  [We could still do much more like common kmalloc
  handling]
- Fixes suggested by David and Glauber

V8->V9:
- Fix numerous things pointed out by Glauber.
- Cleanup the way error handling works in the
  common kmem_cache_create() function.
- General cleanup by breaking things up
  into multiple patches were necessary.

V7->V8:
- Do not use kfree for kmem_cache in slub.
- Add more patches up to a common
  scheme for object alignment.

V6->V7:
- Omit pieces that were merged for 3.6
- Fix issues pointed out by Glauber.
- Include the patches up to the point at which
  the slab name handling is unified

V5->V6:
- Patches against Pekka's for-next tree.
- Go slow and cut down to just patches that are safe
  (there will likely be some churn already due to the
  mutex unification between slabs)
- More to come next week when I have more time (
  took me almost the whole week to catch up after
  being gone for awhile).

V4->V5
- Rediff against current upstream + Pekka's cleanup branch.

V3->V4:
- Do not use the COMMON macro anymore.
- Fixup various issues
- No general sysfs support yet due to lockdep issues with
  keys in kmalloc'ed memory.

V2->V3:
- Incorporate more feedback from Joonsoo Kim and Glauber Costa
- And a couple more patches to deal with slab duping and move
  more code to slab_common.c

V1->V2:
- Incorporate glommers feedback.
- Add 2 more patches dealing with common code in kmem_cache_destroy

This is a series of patches that extracts common functionality from
slab allocators into a common code base. The intend is to standardize
as much as possible of the allocator behavior while keeping the
distinctive features of each allocator which are mostly due to their
storage format and serialization approaches.

This patchset makes a beginning by extracting common functionality in
kmem_cache_create() and kmem_cache_destroy(). However, there are
numerous other areas where such work could be beneficial:

1. Extract the sysfs support from SLUB and make it common. That way
   all allocators have a common sysfs API and are handleable in the same
   way regardless of the allocator chose.

2. Extract the error reporting and checking from SLUB and make
   it available for all allocators. This means that all allocators
   will gain the resiliency and error handling capabilties.

3. Extract the memory hotplug and cpu hotplug handling. It seems that
   SLAB may be more sophisticated here. Having common code here will
   make it easier to maintain the special code.

4. Extract the aliasing capability of SLUB. This will enable fast
   slab creation without creating too many additional slab caches.
   The arrays of caches of varying sizes in numerous subsystems
   do not cause the creation of numerous slab caches. Storage
   density is increased and the cache footprint is reduced.

Ultimately it is to be hoped that the special code for each allocator
shrinks to a mininum. This will also make it easier to make modification
to allocators.

In the far future one could envision that the current allocators will
just become storage algorithms that can be chosen based on the need of
the subsystem. F.e.

Cpu cache dependend performance		= Bonwick allocator (SLAB)
Minimal cycle count and cache footprint	= SLUB
Maximum storage density			= K&R allocator (SLOB)


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2012-08-09 13:56 Common11r [00/20] Sl[auo]b: Common code rework V11 Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [01/20] slub: Add debugging to verify correct cache use on kmem_cache_free() Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [02/20] slub: Use kmem_cache for the kmem_cache structure Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [03/20] Rename oops label Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [04/20] Improve error handling in kmem_cache_create Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [05/20] Move list_add() to slab_common.c Christoph Lameter
2012-08-14 18:43   ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-08-14 20:24     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [06/20] Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [07/20] Always use the name "kmem_cache" for the slab cache with the kmem_cache structure Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [08/20] Move freeing of kmem_cache structure to common code Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [09/20] Get rid of __kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [10/20] Move duping of slab name to slab_common.c Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [11/20] Do slab aliasing call from common code Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [12/20] Move sysfs_slab_add to common Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [13/20] Move kmem_cache allocations into common code Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [14/20] Shrink __kmem_cache_create() parameter lists Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [15/20] Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [16/20] slab: Simplify bootstrap Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [17/20] create common functions for boot slab creation Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [18/20] slub: Use a statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrap Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [19/20] slab: Use the new create_boot_cache function to simplify bootstrap Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 13:56 ` Common11r [20/20] Common alignment code Christoph Lameter
2012-08-14 15:48 ` Common11r [00/20] Sl[auo]b: Common code rework V11 Christoph Lameter

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