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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/35] SLUB: reduce irq disabled scope and make it RT
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        Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
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        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
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From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Date:   Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:47:20 +0200
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On 7/29/21 3:20 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Changes since v2 [5]:
> * Rebase to 5.14-rc3
> * A number of fixes to the RT parts, big thanks to Mike Galbraith for testing
>   and debugging!
>   * The largest fix is to protect kmem_cache_cpu->partial by local_lock instead
>     of cmpxchg tricks, which are insufficient on RT. To avoid divergence
>     between RT and !RT, just do it everywhere. Affected mainly patch 25 and a
>     new patch 33. This also addresses a theoretical race raised earlier by Jann
>     Horn.
> * Smaller fixes reported by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior and Cyrill Gorcunov
> 
> Changes since RFC v1 [1]:
> * Addressed feedback from Christoph and Mel, added their acks.
> * Finished RT conversion, adopting 2 patches from the RT tree.
> * The local_lock conversion has to sacrifice lockless fathpaths on PREEMPT_RT
> * Added some more cleanup patches to the front.
> 
> This series was initially inspired by Mel's pcplist local_lock rewrite, and
> also interest to better understand SLUB's locking and the new primitives and RT
> variants and implications. It should make SLUB more preemption-friendly,
> especially for RT, hopefully without noticeable regressions, as the fast paths
> are not affected.
> 
> Series is based on 5.14-rc3 and also available as a git branch:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/log/?h=slub-local-lock-v3r1

Branch with fixed memory leak in patch 33:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/log/?h=slub-local-lock-v3r2