[PATCH 1/3] mm/slub: directly load freelist from cpu partial slab in the likely case

[Chengming Zhou]

The likely case is that we get a usable slab from the cpu partial list,
we can directly load freelist from it and return back, instead of going
the other way that need more work, like reenable interrupt and recheck.

But we need to remove the "VM_BUG_ON(!new.frozen)" in get_freelist()
for reusing it, since cpu partial slab is not frozen. It seems
acceptable since it's only for debug purpose.

There is some small performance improvement too, which shows by:
perf bench sched messaging -g 5 -t -l 100000

            mm-stable   slub-optimize
Total time      7.473    7.209

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/slub.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 2ef88bbf56a3..20c03555c97b 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3326,7 +3326,6 @@ static inline void *get_freelist(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
 		counters = slab->counters;
 
 		new.counters = counters;
-		VM_BUG_ON(!new.frozen);
 
 		new.inuse = slab->objects;
 		new.frozen = freelist != NULL;
@@ -3498,18 +3497,19 @@ static void *___slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node,
 
 		slab = slub_percpu_partial(c);
 		slub_set_percpu_partial(c, slab);
-		local_unlock_irqrestore(&s->cpu_slab->lock, flags);
-		stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_ALLOC);
 
-		if (unlikely(!node_match(slab, node) ||
-			     !pfmemalloc_match(slab, gfpflags))) {
-			slab->next = NULL;
-			__put_partials(s, slab);
-			continue;
+		if (likely(node_match(slab, node) &&
+			   pfmemalloc_match(slab, gfpflags))) {
+			c->slab = slab;
+			freelist = get_freelist(s, slab);
+			stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_ALLOC);
+			goto load_freelist;
 		}
 
-		freelist = freeze_slab(s, slab);
-		goto retry_load_slab;
+		local_unlock_irqrestore(&s->cpu_slab->lock, flags);
+
+		slab->next = NULL;
+		__put_partials(s, slab);
 	}
 #endif
 

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