mm/slab: support slab merge
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:26:24 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:25:51 +0000 (22:25 -0400)
commit12220dea07f1ac6ac717707104773d771c3f3077
tree5d12f754560c7b06e6d1bda9cf29000765fe921f
parent423c929cbbecc60e9c407f9048e58f5422f7995d
mm/slab: support slab merge

Slab merge is good feature to reduce fragmentation.  If new creating slab
have similar size and property with exsitent slab, this feature reuse it
rather than creating new one.  As a result, objects are packed into fewer
slabs so that fragmentation is reduced.

Below is result of my testing.

* After boot, sleep 20; cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab

<Before>
Slab: 25136 kB

<After>
Slab: 24364 kB

We can save 3% memory used by slab.

For supporting this feature in SLAB, we need to implement SLAB specific
kmem_cache_flag() and __kmem_cache_alias(), because SLUB implements some
SLUB specific processing related to debug flag and object size change on
these functions.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c
mm/slab.h