forked from torvalds/linux
-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 0
Commit
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
Current free objects management method of the slab is weird, because it touch random position of the array of kmem_bufctl_t when we try to get free object. See following example. struct slab's free = 6 kmem_bufctl_t array: 1 END 5 7 0 4 3 2 To get free objects, we access this array with following pattern. 6 -> 3 -> 7 -> 2 -> 5 -> 4 -> 0 -> 1 -> END If we have many objects, this array would be larger and be not in the same cache line. It is not good for performance. We can do same thing through more easy way, like as the stack. Only thing we have to do is to maintain stack top to free object. I use free field of struct slab for this purpose. After that, if we need to get an object, we can get it at stack top and manipulate top pointer. That's all. This method already used in array_cache management. Following is an access pattern when we use this method. struct slab's free = 0 kmem_bufctl_t array: 6 3 7 2 5 4 0 1 To get free objects, we access this array with following pattern. 0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 This may help cache line footprint if slab has many objects, and, in addition, this makes code much much simpler. Acked-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
- Loading branch information
1 parent
a57a498
commit b1cb098
Showing
1 changed file
with
30 additions
and
64 deletions.
There are no files selected for viewing
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters