SLUB: Fix default slab order for big object sizes

The default order of kmalloc-8192 on 2*4 stoakley is an issue of
calculate_order.

slab_size       order           name
-------------------------------------------------
4096            3               sgpool-128
8192            2               kmalloc-8192
16384           3               kmalloc-16384

kmalloc-8192's default order is smaller than sgpool-128's.

On 4*4 tigerton machine, a similiar issue appears on another kmem_cache.

Function calculate_order uses 'min_objects /= 2;' to shrink. Plus size
calculation/checking in slab_order, sometimes above issue appear.

Below patch against 2.6.29-rc2 fixes it.

I checked the default orders of all kmem_cache and they don't become
smaller than before. So the patch wouldn't hurt performance.

Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5a5e7f5..c01a7a3 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1844,6 +1844,7 @@ static inline int calculate_order(int size)
        int order;
        int min_objects;
        int fraction;
+       int max_objects;
 
        /*
         * Attempt to find best configuration for a slab. This
@@ -1856,6 +1857,9 @@ static inline int calculate_order(int size)
        min_objects = slub_min_objects;
        if (!min_objects)
                min_objects = 4 * (fls(nr_cpu_ids) + 1);
+       max_objects = (PAGE_SIZE << slub_max_order)/size;
+       min_objects = min(min_objects, max_objects);
+
        while (min_objects > 1) {
                fraction = 16;
                while (fraction >= 4) {
@@ -1865,7 +1869,7 @@ static inline int calculate_order(int size)
                                return order;
                        fraction /= 2;
                }
-               min_objects /= 2;
+               min_objects --;
        }
 
        /*