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mm/slab: reverse iteration on find_mergeable()

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Unlike SLUB, sometimes, object isn't started at the beginning of the slab
in the SLAB.  This causes the unalignment problem when after slab merging
is supported by commit 12220dea07 ("mm/slab: support slab merge").
Alignment mismatch check is introduced ("mm/slab: fix unalignment problem
on Malta with EVA due to slab merge") to prevent merge in this case.

This causes undesirable result that merging happens between infrequently
used kmem_caches if there are kmem_caches with same size and is 256 bytes,
are merged into pool_workqueue rather than kmalloc-256, because
kmem_caches for kmalloc are at the tail of the list.

To prevent this situation, this patch reverses iteration order in
find_mergeable() to find frequently used kmem_caches.  This change helps
to merge kmem_cache to frequently used kmem_caches, such as kmalloc
kmem_caches.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim 2014-12-10 15:42:18 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1df3b26f20
commit 5436205738
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@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(size_t size, size_t align,
size = ALIGN(size, align);
flags = kmem_cache_flags(size, flags, name, NULL);
list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) {
list_for_each_entry_reverse(s, &slab_caches, list) {
if (slab_unmergeable(s))
continue;