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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] slub: reduce failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg in put_cpu_partial() after unfreezing
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.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@gmail.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?

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>



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