Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: Simplify get_partial_node()

Chengming Zhou
2024-03-12T06:21:25Z

On 2024/3/11 21:27, sxwjean@me.com wrote:
> From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
>
> Remove the check of !kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial() because it is always
> false, we've known this by calling kmem_cache_debug() before calling
> remove_partial(), so we can remove the check.

This is correct.

>
> Meanwhile, redo filling cpu partial and add comment to improve the
> readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index a3ab096c38c0..62388f2a0ac7 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2620,19 +2620,21 @@ static struct slab *get_partial_node(struct kmem_cache *s,
> if (!partial) {
> partial = slab;
> stat(s, ALLOC_FROM_PARTIAL);
> - } else {
> +
> + /* Fill cpu partial if needed from next iteration, or break */
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL))
> + continue;
> + else
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL)) {

But this won't work since "s->cpu_partial_slabs" is defined under CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL,
you would get compiler error if building without CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL.

Thanks.

> put_cpu_partial(s, slab, 0);
> stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_NODE);
> - partial_slabs++;
> - }
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
> - if (!kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial(s)
> - || partial_slabs > s->cpu_partial_slabs / 2)
> - break;
> -#else
> - break;
> -#endif
>
> + if (++partial_slabs > s->cpu_partial_slabs/2)
> + break;
> + }
> }
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags);
> return partial;