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mm/slab: make criteria for off slab determination robust and simple
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:54:41 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:55:16 +0000 (16:55 -0700)
commit59a0b3f65641959cc0d918c0416eb84015a51547
tree247f6292465ea709f674eca08abc09cc2f52e0ce
parent86506de6c928c85ccf12ce881e1e60203b6741c4
mm/slab: make criteria for off slab determination robust and simple

To become an off slab, there are some constraints to avoid bootstrapping
problem and recursive call.  This can be avoided differently by simply
checking that corresponding kmalloc cache is ready and it's not a off
slab.  It would be more robust because static size checking can be
affected by cache size change or architecture type but dynamic checking
isn't.

One check 'freelist_cache->size > cachep->size / 2' is added to check
benefit of choosing off slab, because, now, there is no size constraint
which ensures enough advantage when selecting off slab.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
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: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c