linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] slub: reduce failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg in put_cpu

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Date:	Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:05:09 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] slub: reduce failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg in
 put_cpu_partial() after unfreezing

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com> wrote:
> In current implementation, after unfreezing, we doesn't touch oldpage,
> so it remain 'NOT NULL'. When we call this_cpu_cmpxchg()
> with this old oldpage, this_cpu_cmpxchg() is mostly be failed.
>
> We can change value of oldpage to NULL after unfreezing,
> because unfreeze_partial() ensure that all the cpu partial slabs is removed
> from cpu partial list. In this time, we could expect that
> this_cpu_cmpxchg is mostly succeed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 92f1c0e..531d8ed 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1968,6 +1968,7 @@ int put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain)
>                                 local_irq_save(flags);
>                                 unfreeze_partials(s);
>                                 local_irq_restore(flags);
> +                               oldpage = NULL;
>                                 pobjects = 0;
>                                 pages = 0;
>                                 stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_DRAIN);

Makes sense. Christoph, David?
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