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authorJoonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>2012-06-23 03:22:38 +0900
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2012-08-16 10:06:42 +0300
commite24fc410f58cc7851188a6e996dc6ce5c4259eb4 (patch)
treeb97cc0b129c34868d1f2a71093e1d889d65b13ec /mm
parent19c7ff9ecd89441096dab6a56f926f7df8ba850a (diff)
downloadlinux-e24fc410f58cc7851188a6e996dc6ce5c4259eb4.tar.bz2
slub: reduce failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg in put_cpu_partial() after unfreezing
In current implementation, after unfreezing, we doesn't touch oldpage, so it remain 'NOT NULL'. When we call this_cpu_cmpxchg() with this old oldpage, this_cpu_cmpxchg() is mostly be failed. We can change value of oldpage to NULL after unfreezing, because unfreeze_partial() ensure that all the cpu partial slabs is removed from cpu partial list. In this time, we could expect that this_cpu_cmpxchg is mostly succeed. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index e131084e87a3..c67bd0a4a952 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1962,6 +1962,7 @@ int put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain)
local_irq_save(flags);
unfreeze_partials(s);
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ oldpage = NULL;
pobjects = 0;
pages = 0;
stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_DRAIN);