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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-03-05 14:05:56 -0800
committerChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2008-03-06 16:21:50 -0800
commitb6210386787728b84db25adc4f1eba70440a4c73 (patch)
tree22702da1d1168c50cd56044be6cf68a0c093471e /mm/slub.c
parent1c61fc40fc264059ff41a614ed2d899127288281 (diff)
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slub: Do not cross cacheline boundaries for very small objects
SLUB should pack even small objects nicely into cachelines if that is what has been asked for. Use the same algorithm as SLAB for this. The effect of this patch for a system with a cacheline size of 64 bytes is that the 24 byte sized slab caches will now put exactly 2 objects into a cacheline instead of 3 with some overlap into the next cacheline. This reduces the object density in a 4k slab from 170 to 128 objects (same as SLAB). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slub.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index a96e11c77fd9..96d63eb3ab17 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1856,12 +1856,15 @@ static unsigned long calculate_alignment(unsigned long flags,
* The hardware cache alignment cannot override the specified
* alignment though. If that is greater then use it.
*/
- if ((flags & SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN) &&
- size > cache_line_size() / 2)
- return max_t(unsigned long, align, cache_line_size());
+ if (flags & SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN) {
+ unsigned long ralign = cache_line_size();
+ while (size <= ralign / 2)
+ ralign /= 2;
+ align = max(align, ralign);
+ }
if (align < ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
- return ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN;
+ align = ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN;
return ALIGN(align, sizeof(void *));
}