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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 4/9] slub: Prepare __slab_free() for unfrozen
 partial slab out of node partial list
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To:     chengming.zhou@linux.dev, cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org,
        willy@infradead.org
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
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From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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On 10/31/23 15:07, chengming.zhou@linux.dev wrote:
> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
> 
> Now the partially empty slub will be frozen when taken out of node partial
> list, so the __slab_free() will know from "was_frozen" that the partially
> empty slab is not on node partial list and is a cpu or cpu partial slab
> of some cpu.
> 
> But we will change this, make partial slabs leave the node partial list
> with unfrozen state, so we need to change __slab_free() to use the new
> slab_test_node_partial() we just introduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/slub.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index eed8ae0dbaf9..1880b483350e 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3631,6 +3631,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
>  	unsigned long counters;
>  	struct kmem_cache_node *n = NULL;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> +	bool on_node_partial;
>  
>  	stat(s, FREE_SLOWPATH);
>  
> @@ -3678,6 +3679,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
>  				 */
>  				spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags);
>  
> +				on_node_partial = slab_test_node_partial(slab);
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> @@ -3706,6 +3708,15 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * This slab was partially empty but not on the per-node partial list,
> +	 * in which case we shouldn't manipulate its list, just return.
> +	 */
> +	if (prior && !on_node_partial) {
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (unlikely(!new.inuse && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial))
>  		goto slab_empty;
>