tree 90bdc46a1eda7b6b67c54bfb78ed851478aac027
parent 19d795b677bda354644cfb87a196b087fdc2a965
author Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> 1463703002 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1463710334 -0700

mm/slab: fix the theoretical race by holding proper lock

While processing concurrent allocation, SLAB could be contended a lot
because it did a lots of work with holding a lock.  This patchset try to
reduce the number of critical section to reduce lock contention.  Major
changes are lockless decision to allocate more slab and lockless cpu
cache refill from the newly allocated slab.

Below is the result of concurrent allocation/free in slab allocation
benchmark made by Christoph a long time ago.  I make the output simpler.
The number shows cycle count during alloc/free respectively so less is
better.

  * Before
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=365/806
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=452/690
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=736/886
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=1167/985
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=2088/1125
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=4115/1184
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=8451/1748
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=16024/2048

  * After
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=344/792
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=347/882
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=390/959
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=393/1067
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=683/1229
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=1295/1325
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=2513/1664
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=4742/2172

It shows that performance improves greatly (roughly more than 50%) for
the object class whose size is more than 128 bytes.

This patch (of 11):

If we don't hold neither the slab_mutex nor the node lock, node's shared
array cache could be freed and re-populated.  If __kmem_cache_shrink()
is called at the same time, it will call drain_array() with n->shared
without holding node lock so problem can happen.  This patch fix the
situation by holding the node lock before trying to drain the shared
array.

In addition, add a debug check to confirm that n->shared access race
doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>