Re: [PATCH v3 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index()

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Wed Apr 22 2020 - 20:05:46 EST


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:52:13PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>
> > enum stat_item {
> > ALLOC_FASTPATH, /* Allocation from cpu slab */
> > @@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ struct kmem_cache {
> > unsigned long min_partial;
> > unsigned int size; /* The size of an object including metadata */
> > unsigned int object_size;/* The size of an object without metadata */
> > + struct reciprocal_value reciprocal_size;
>
>
> This needs to be moved further back since it is not an item that needs to
> be cache hot for the hotpaths.

It could be relatively hot, because it's accessed for reading on every
accounted allocation.

> Place it with "align", inuse etc?
>
> Hmmm. the same applies to min_partial maybe?
>
>

And min_partial should much colder.

So maybe a patch on top of the series which moves both fields can work?

Thanks!