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Harding" To: Roman Gushchin Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" , Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Matthew Wilcox , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] slob: Use slab_list instead of lru Message-ID: <20190314204700.GA10222@eros.localdomain> References: <20190314053135.1541-1-tobin@kernel.org> <20190314053135.1541-4-tobin@kernel.org> <20190314185219.GA6441@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190314185219.GA6441@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.11.3 (2019-02-01) User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 06:52:25PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:31:31PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Currently we use the page->lru list for maintaining lists of slabs. We > > have a list_head in the page structure (slab_list) that can be used for > > this purpose. Doing so makes the code cleaner since we are not > > overloading the lru list. > > > > The slab_list is part of a union within the page struct (included here > > stripped down): > > > > union { > > struct { /* Page cache and anonymous pages */ > > struct list_head lru; > > ... > > }; > > struct { > > dma_addr_t dma_addr; > > }; > > struct { /* slab, slob and slub */ > > union { > > struct list_head slab_list; > > struct { /* Partial pages */ > > struct page *next; > > int pages; /* Nr of pages left */ > > int pobjects; /* Approximate count */ > > }; > > }; > > ... > > > > Here we see that slab_list and lru are the same bits. We can verify > > that this change is safe to do by examining the object file produced from > > slob.c before and after this patch is applied. > > > > Steps taken to verify: > > > > 1. checkout current tip of Linus' tree > > > > commit a667cb7a94d4 ("Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)") > > > > 2. configure and build (select SLOB allocator) > > > > CONFIG_SLOB=y > > CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT=y > > > > 3. dissasemble object file `objdump -dr mm/slub.o > before.s > > 4. apply patch > > 5. build > > 6. dissasemble object file `objdump -dr mm/slub.o > after.s > > 7. diff before.s after.s > > > > Use slab_list list_head instead of the lru list_head for maintaining > > lists of slabs. > > > > Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin > > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding > > --- > > mm/slob.c | 8 ++++---- > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c > > index 39ad9217ffea..94486c32e0ff 100644 > > --- a/mm/slob.c > > +++ b/mm/slob.c > > @@ -112,13 +112,13 @@ static inline int slob_page_free(struct page *sp) > > > > static void set_slob_page_free(struct page *sp, struct list_head *list) > > { > > - list_add(&sp->lru, list); > > + list_add(&sp->slab_list, list); > > __SetPageSlobFree(sp); > > } > > > > static inline void clear_slob_page_free(struct page *sp) > > { > > - list_del(&sp->lru); > > + list_del(&sp->slab_list); > > __ClearPageSlobFree(sp); > > } > > > > @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node) > > > > spin_lock_irqsave(&slob_lock, flags); > > /* Iterate through each partially free page, try to find room */ > > - list_for_each_entry(sp, slob_list, lru) { > > + list_for_each_entry(sp, slob_list, slab_list) { > > #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA > > /* > > * If there's a node specification, search for a partial > > > Hi Tobin! > > How about list_rotate_to_front(&next->lru, slob_list) from the previous patch? > Shouldn't it use slab_list instead of lru too? I'll let this sit for a day or two in case we get any more comments on the list.h stuff then do another version ready for US Monday morning. Thanks again, Tobin.