SLUB: Optimize cacheline use for zeroing

We touch a cacheline in the kmem_cache structure for zeroing to get the
size. However, the hot paths in slab_alloc and slab_free do not reference
any other fields in kmem_cache, so we may have to just bring in the
cacheline for this one access.

Add a new field to kmem_cache_cpu that contains the object size. That
cacheline must already be used in the hotpaths. So we save one cacheline
on every slab_alloc if we zero.

We need to update the kmem_cache_cpu object size if an aliasing operation
changes the objsize of an non debug slab.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index f74716b59ce2..d65159d1d4f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ struct kmem_cache_cpu {
         struct page *page;
         int node;
         unsigned int offset;
+        unsigned int objsize;
 };
 
 struct kmem_cache_node {