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slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline

RFC PATCH New Alexander Duyck 1 participant 1 message May 14, 2010

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Alexander Duyck

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RFC PATCH 1/1 slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline

This patch is meant to improve the performance of SLUB by moving the local kmem_cache_node lock into it's own cacheline separate from kmem_cache. This is accomplished by simply removing the local_node when NUMA is enabled.

On my system with 2 nodes I saw around a 5% performance increase w/ hackbench times dropping from 6.2 seconds to 5.9 seconds on average. I suspect the performance gain would increase as the number of nodes increases, but I do not have the data to currently back that up.

Signed-off-by Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>

---

 include/linux/slub_def.h |   11 ++++-------
 mm/slub.c                |   33 +++++++++++----------------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
include/linux/slub_def.h +4 -7
index 0249d41..e6217bb 100644
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct kmem_cache_node {
 	atomic_long_t total_objects;
 	struct list_head full;
 #endif
-};
+} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
 
 /*
  * Word size structure that can be atomically updated or read and that

@@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 	int offset;		/* Free pointer offset. */
 	struct kmem_cache_order_objects oo;
 
-	/*
-	 * Avoid an extra cache line for UP, SMP and for the node local to
-	 * struct kmem_cache.
-	 */
-	struct kmem_cache_node local_node;
-
 	/* Allocation and freeing of slabs */
 	struct kmem_cache_order_objects max;
 	struct kmem_cache_order_objects min;

@@ -102,6 +96,9 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 	 */
 	int remote_node_defrag_ratio;
 	struct kmem_cache_node *node[MAX_NUMNODES];
+#else
+	/* Avoid an extra cache line for UP */
+	struct kmem_cache_node local_node;
 #endif
 };
mm/slub.c +11 -22
index d2a54fe..6cf6be7 100644
@@ -2141,7 +2141,7 @@ static void free_kmem_cache_nodes(struct kmem_cache *s)
 
 	for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) {
 		struct kmem_cache_node *n = s->node[node];
-		if (n && n != &s->local_node)
+		if (n)
 			kmem_cache_free(kmalloc_caches, n);
 		s->node[node] = NULL;
 	}

@@ -2150,33 +2150,22 @@ static void free_kmem_cache_nodes(struct kmem_cache *s)
 static int init_kmem_cache_nodes(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
 {
 	int node;
-	int local_node;
-
-	if (slab_state >= UP && (s < kmalloc_caches ||
-			s >= kmalloc_caches + KMALLOC_CACHES))
-		local_node = page_to_nid(virt_to_page(s));
-	else
-		local_node = 0;
 
 	for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) {
 		struct kmem_cache_node *n;
 
-		if (local_node == node)
-			n = &s->local_node;
-		else {
-			if (slab_state == DOWN) {
-				early_kmem_cache_node_alloc(gfpflags, node);
-				continue;
-			}
-			n = kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmalloc_caches,
-							gfpflags, node);
-
-			if (!n) {
-				free_kmem_cache_nodes(s);
-				return 0;
-			}
+		if (slab_state == DOWN) {
+			early_kmem_cache_node_alloc(gfpflags, node);
+			continue;
+		}
+		n = kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmalloc_caches,
+						gfpflags, node);
 
+		if (!n) {
+			free_kmem_cache_nodes(s);
+			return 0;
 		}
+
 		s->node[node] = n;
 		init_kmem_cache_node(n, s);
 	}

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