From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] slab: separate struct freelist_tid from kmem_cache_cpu
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:22:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aRWHSDnLIVsf6ex4@hyeyoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251107-slab-fms-cleanup-v1-1-650b1491ac9e@suse.cz>
On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 02:51:23PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> In kmem_cache_cpu we currently have a union of the freelist+tid pair
> with freelist_aba_t, relying implicitly on the type compatibility with the
> freelist+counters pair used in freelist_aba_t.
>
> To allow further changes to freelist_aba_t, we can instead define a
> separate struct freelist_tid (instead of a typedef, per the coding
> style) for kmem_cache_cpu, as that affects only a single helper
> __update_cpu_freelist_fast().
>
> We can add the resulting struct freelist_tid to kmem_cache_cpu as
> unnamed field thanks to -fms-extensions, so that freelist and tid fields
> can still be accessed directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
--
Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-13 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-07 13:51 [PATCH 0/4] slab: cmpxchg cleanups enabled by -fms-extensions Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-07 13:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] slab: separate struct freelist_tid from kmem_cache_cpu Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-13 7:22 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2025-11-07 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] slab: turn freelist_aba_t to a struct and fully define counters there Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-13 7:34 ` Harry Yoo
2025-11-07 13:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] slab: use struct freelist_counters for local variables instead of struct slab Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-13 7:45 ` Harry Yoo
2025-11-07 13:51 ` [PATCH 4/4] slab: use struct freelist_counters as parameters in relevant functions Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-13 8:32 ` Harry Yoo
2025-11-13 9:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
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