Most kmem_cache_alloc() calls are from user context. With instrumentation
enabled, the measured amount of kmem_cache_alloc() calls from non-task
context was about 0.01% of the total.
The irq disable/enable sequence used in this case to access content from
object stock is slow. To optimize for user context access, there are now
two sets of object stocks (in the new obj_stock structure) for task
context and interrupt context access respectively.
The task context object stock can be accessed after disabling preemption
which is cheap in non-preempt kernel. The interrupt context object stock
can only be accessed after disabling interrupt. User context code can
access interrupt object stock, but not vice versa.
The downside of this change is that there are more data stored in local
object stocks and not reflected in the charge counter and the vmstat
arrays. However, this is a small price to pay for better performance.
[longman@redhat.com: fix potential uninitialized variable warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526193602.8742-1-longman@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210506150007.16288-5-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <msys.mizuma@gmail.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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