From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:05:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Fix kmem_cache_free performance regression in slab X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc4~20 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80cbd911ca25535f6bb66bbcbb98950ec328eb40;p=linux-2.6 Fix kmem_cache_free performance regression in slab The database performance group have found that half the cycles spent in kmem_cache_free are spent in this one call to BUG_ON. Moving it into the CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG-only function cache_free_debugcheck() is a performance win of almost 0.5% on their particular benchmark. The call was added as part of commit ddc2e812d592457747c4367fb73edcaa8e1e49ff with the comment that "overhead should be minimal". It may have been minimal at the time, but it isn't now. [ Quoth Pekka Enberg: "I don't think the BUG_ON per se caused the performance regression but rather the virt_to_head_page() changes to virt_to_cache() that were added later." ] Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index c31cd3682a..202465a193 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2881,6 +2881,8 @@ static void *cache_free_debugcheck(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp, unsigned int objnr; struct slab *slabp; + BUG_ON(virt_to_cache(objp) != cachep); + objp -= obj_offset(cachep); kfree_debugcheck(objp); page = virt_to_head_page(objp); @@ -3759,8 +3761,6 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp) { unsigned long flags; - BUG_ON(virt_to_cache(objp) != cachep); - local_irq_save(flags); debug_check_no_locks_freed(objp, obj_size(cachep)); __cache_free(cachep, objp);