[PATCH v3 1/2] mm/slub: limit number of node partial slabs only in cache creation

From: Hyeonggon Yoo
Date: Mon Mar 07 2022 - 02:41:24 EST


SLUB sets number of minimum partial slabs for node (min_partial)
using set_min_partial(). SLUB holds at least min_partial slabs even if
they're empty to avoid excessive use of page allocator.

set_min_partial() limits value of min_partial limits value of
min_partial MIN_PARTIAL and MAX_PARTIAL. As set_min_partial() can be
called by min_partial_store() too, Only limit value of min_partial
in kmem_cache_open() so that it can be changed to value that a user wants.

[ rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx: Fold set_min_partial() into its callers ]

Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 14 +++-----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 261474092e43..1ce09b0347ad 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4000,15 +4000,6 @@ static int init_kmem_cache_nodes(struct kmem_cache *s)
return 1;
}

-static void set_min_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long min)
-{
- if (min < MIN_PARTIAL)
- min = MIN_PARTIAL;
- else if (min > MAX_PARTIAL)
- min = MAX_PARTIAL;
- s->min_partial = min;
-}
-
static void set_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
@@ -4215,7 +4206,8 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_cache *s, slab_flags_t flags)
* The larger the object size is, the more slabs we want on the partial
* list to avoid pounding the page allocator excessively.
*/
- set_min_partial(s, ilog2(s->size) / 2);
+ s->min_partial = min_t(unsigned long, MAX_PARTIAL, ilog2(s->size) / 2);
+ s->min_partial = max_t(unsigned long, MIN_PARTIAL, s->min_partial);

set_cpu_partial(s);

@@ -5396,7 +5388,7 @@ static ssize_t min_partial_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf,
if (err)
return err;

- set_min_partial(s, min);
+ s->min_partial = min;
return length;
}
SLAB_ATTR(min_partial);
--
2.33.1