linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Introducing lockless cache built on top of slab allocator

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Message-ID: <YUeM2J7X/i0CHjrz@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Sun, 19 Sep 2021 20:17:44 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introducing lockless cache built on top of slab
 allocator

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 04:42:39PM +0000, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> It is just simple proof of concept, and not ready for submission yet.
> There can be wrong code (like wrong gfp flags, or wrong error handling,
> etc) it is just simple proof of concept. I want comment from you.

Have you read:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix01/full_papers/bonwick/bonwick_html/

The relevant part of that paper is section 3, magazines.  We should have
low and high water marks for number of objects, and we should allocate
from / free to the slab allocator in batches.  Slab has bulk alloc/free
APIs already.

I'd rather see this be part of the slab allocator than a separate API.