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Since we don't control the NUMA locality of objects in percpu sheaves, allocations with node restrictions bypass them. Allocations without restrictions may however still expect to get local objects with high probability, and the introduction of sheaves can decrease it due to freed object from a remote node ending up in percpu sheaves. The fraction of such remote frees seems low (5% on an 8-node machine) but it can be expected that some cache or workload specific corner cases exist. We can either conclude that this is not a problem due to the low fraction, or we can make remote frees bypass percpu sheaves and go directly to their slabs. This will make the remote frees more expensive, but if it's only a small fraction, most frees will still benefit from the lower overhead of percpu sheaves. This patch thus makes remote object freeing bypass percpu sheaves, including bulk freeing, and kfree_rcu() via the rcu_free sheaf. However it's not intended to be 100% guarantee that percpu sheaves will only contain local objects. The refill from slabs does not provide that guarantee in the first place, and there might be cpu migrations happening when we need to unlock the local_lock. Avoiding all that could be possible but complicated so we can leave it for later investigation whether it would be worth it. It can be expected that the more selective freeing will itself prevent accumulation of remote objects in percpu sheaves so any such violations would have only short-term effects. Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.