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

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 17:06:36 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 5/20/20 11:00 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >
> > From beeaecdac85c3a395dcfb99944dc8c858b541cbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:18:42 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH v3.2 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index()
> >
> > This commit implements SLUB version of the obj_to_index() function,
> > which will be required to calculate the offset of obj_cgroup in the
> > obj_cgroups vector to store/obtain the objcg ownership data.
> >
> > To make it faster, let's repeat the SLAB's trick introduced by
> > commit 6a2d7a955d8d ("[PATCH] SLAB: use a multiply instead of a
> > divide in obj_to_index()") and avoid an expensive division.
> >
> > Vlastimil Babka noticed, that SLUB does have already a similar
> > function called slab_index(), which is defined only if SLUB_DEBUG
> > is enabled. The function does a similar math, but with a division,
> > and it also takes a page address instead of a page pointer.
> >
> > Let's remove slab_index() and replace it with the new helper
> > __obj_to_index(), which takes a page address. obj_to_index()
> > will be a simple wrapper taking a page pointer and passing
> > page_address(page) into __obj_to_index().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
>
> Looks good!
>
> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!