Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] slub: Update frozen slabs documentations in the source

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 04:39:08 EST


On 12/5/23 07:06, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> On 2023/12/5 05:41, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The current updated scheme (which this series implemented) is:
>>> - node partial slabs: PG_Workingset && !frozen
>>> - cpu partial slabs: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
>>> - cpu slabs: !PG_Workingset && frozen
>>> - full slabs: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
>>
>> The above would be good to include in the comments.
>>
>> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Thanks for your review and suggestion!
>
> Maybe something like this:

Thanks, added.

> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 623c17a4cdd6..21f88bd9c16b 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
> * by clearing the PG_workingset flag when moving out of the node
> * partial list. Please see __slab_free() for more details.
> *
> + * To sum up, the current scheme is:
> + * - node partial slab: PG_Workingset && !frozen
> + * - cpu partial slab: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
> + * - cpu slab: !PG_Workingset && frozen
> + * - full slab: !PG_Workingset && !frozen
> + *
> * list_lock
> *
> * The list_lock protects the partial and full list on each node and