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mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
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This patch removes the check for pfmemalloc from the alloc hotpath and
puts the logic after the election of a new per cpu slab.  For a pfmemalloc
page we do not use the fast path but force the use of the slow path which
is also used for the debug case.

This has the side-effect of weakening pfmemalloc processing in the
following way;

1. A process that is allocating for network swap calls __slab_alloc.
   pfmemalloc_match is true so the freelist is loaded and c->freelist is
   now pointing to a pfmemalloc page.

2. A process that is attempting normal allocations calls slab_alloc,
   finds the pfmemalloc page on the freelist and uses it because it did
   not check pfmemalloc_match()

The patch allows non-pfmemalloc allocations to use pfmemalloc pages with
the kmalloc slabs being the most vunerable caches on the grounds they
are most likely to have a mix of pfmemalloc and !pfmemalloc requests. A
later patch will still protect the system as processes will get throttled
if the pfmemalloc reserves get depleted but performance will not degrade
as smoothly.

[mgorman@suse.de: Expanded changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored and Linus Torvalds committed Aug 1, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -2281,11 +2281,11 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node,
}

page = c->page;
if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s)))
if (likely(!kmem_cache_debug(s) && pfmemalloc_match(page, gfpflags)))
goto load_freelist;

/* Only entered in the debug case */
if (!alloc_debug_processing(s, page, freelist, addr))
if (kmem_cache_debug(s) && !alloc_debug_processing(s, page, freelist, addr))
goto new_slab; /* Slab failed checks. Next slab needed */

deactivate_slab(s, page, get_freepointer(s, freelist));
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object = c->freelist;
page = c->page;
if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node) ||
!pfmemalloc_match(page, gfpflags)))
if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node)))
object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);

else {
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