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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-20 12:15:30 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-20 12:15:30 +0100
commit057685cf57066bc8aaed68de1b1970e12f0075d2 (patch)
treee7fea68e7080d6366b45775028bfbdf6237ecda5 /include/linux/slub_def.h
parent64b36ca7f408e0bd45487c8c28f168f11f3b6dcd (diff)
parentfe1200b63d158b28eef6d4de1e5b5f99c681ba2f (diff)
Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace
Conflicts: mm/slub.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slub_def.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slub_def.h19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index 6b657f7dcb2..9e3a575b2c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -122,10 +122,23 @@ struct kmem_cache {
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
/*
+ * Maximum kmalloc object size handled by SLUB. Larger object allocations
+ * are passed through to the page allocator. The page allocator "fastpath"
+ * is relatively slow so we need this value sufficiently high so that
+ * performance critical objects are allocated through the SLUB fastpath.
+ *
+ * This should be dropped to PAGE_SIZE / 2 once the page allocator
+ * "fastpath" becomes competitive with the slab allocator fastpaths.
+ */
+#define SLUB_MAX_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE)
+
+#define SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)
+
+/*
* We keep the general caches in an array of slab caches that are used for
* 2^x bytes of allocations.
*/
-extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[PAGE_SHIFT + 1];
+extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT];
/*
* Sorry that the following has to be that ugly but some versions of GCC
@@ -231,7 +244,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
void *ret;
if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
- if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (size > SLUB_MAX_SIZE)
return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
if (!(flags & SLUB_DMA)) {
@@ -275,7 +288,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
void *ret;
if (__builtin_constant_p(size) &&
- size <= PAGE_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) {
+ size <= SLUB_MAX_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) {
struct kmem_cache *s = kmalloc_slab(size);
if (!s)