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Now we will freeze slabs when moving them out of node partial list to cpu partial list, this method needs two cmpxchg_double operations: 1. freeze slab (acquire_slab()) under the node list_lock 2. get_freelist() when pick used in ___slab_alloc() Actually we don't need to freeze when moving slabs out of node partial list, we can delay freezing to when use slab freelist in ___slab_alloc(), so we can save one cmpxchg_double(). And there are other good points: - The moving of slabs between node partial list and cpu partial list becomes simpler, since we don't need to freeze or unfreeze at all. - The node list_lock contention would be less, since we don't need to freeze any slab under the node list_lock. We can achieve this because there is no concurrent path would manipulate the partial slab list except the __slab_free() path, which is now serialized by slab_test_node_partial() under the list_lock. Since the slab returned by get_partial() interfaces is not frozen anymore and no freelist is returned in the partial_context, so we need to use the introduced freeze_slab() to freeze it and get its freelist. Similarly, the slabs on the CPU partial list are not frozen anymore, we need to freeze_slab() on it before use. We can now delete acquire_slab() as it became unused. Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.