linux/mm
Christoph Lameter 6300ea7503 SLUB: ensure that the number of objects per slab stays low for high orders
Currently SLUB has no provision to deal with too high page orders that may
be specified on the kernel boot line.  If an order higher than 6 (on a 4k
platform) is generated then we will BUG() because slabs get more than 65535
objects.

Add some logic that decreases order for slabs that have too many objects.
This allow booting with slab sizes up to MAX_ORDER.

For example

	slub_min_order=10

will boot with a default slab size of 4M and reduce slab sizes for small
object sizes to lower orders if the number of objects becomes too big.
Large slab sizes like that allow a concentration of objects of the same
slab cache under as few as possible TLB entries and thus potentially
reduces TLB pressure.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
backing-dev.c remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible() 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
bounce.c block: blk_max_pfn is somtimes wrong 2007-03-27 08:52:47 +02:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
filemap_xip.c xip sendfile removal 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
filemap.c Fix read/truncate race 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
filemap.h Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
fremap.c [PATCH] mm: more rmap debugging 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
highmem.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
hugetlb.c Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
internal.h Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Kconfig Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2007-07-16 10:32:02 -07:00
madvise.c speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Makefile Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory hotplug: fix unnecessary calling of init_currenty_empty_zone() 2007-06-01 08:18:29 -07:00
memory.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempolicy.c Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempool.c permit mempool_free(NULL) 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
migrate.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fix 2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c split mmap 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] paravirt: lazy mmu mode hooks.patch 2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
mremap.c security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap 2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: stub expand_stack() for nommu case 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: fix constraint deadlock 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
page_alloc.c Lumpy Reclaim V4 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
page-writeback.c dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
quicklist.c Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
readahead.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
rmap.c mm: kill validate_anon_vma to avoid mapcount BUG 2007-06-28 11:34:53 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
shmem.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
slab.c mm/slab.c: start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
slob.c slob: sparsemem support 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
slub.c SLUB: ensure that the number of objects per slab stays low for high orders 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
sparse.c Move three functions that are only needed for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
swap_state.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
swap.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
swapfile.c vmscan: fix comments related to shrink_list() 2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] mm/{,tiny-}shmem.c cleanups 2007-03-01 14:53:35 -08:00
truncate.c invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_resched 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
util.c [PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit 2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
vmalloc.c [POWERPC] unmap_vm_area becomes unmap_kernel_range for the public 2007-06-14 22:29:56 +10:00
vmscan.c mm: clean up and kernelify shrinker registration 2007-07-17 10:23:00 -07:00
vmstat.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00