Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails"
This reverts commit 8ff60eb0. The kernel test robot reports a huge performance regression due to the commit, and the reason seems fairly straightforward: when there is contention on the page list (which is what causes acquire_slab() to fail), we do _not_ want to just loop and try again, because that will transfer the contention to the 'n->list_lock' spinlock we hold, and just make things even worse. This is admittedly likely a problem only on big machines - the kernel test robot report comes from a 96-thread dual socket Intel Xeon Gold 6252 setup, but the regression there really is quite noticeable: -47.9% regression of stress-ng.rawpkt.ops_per_sec and the commit that was marked as being fixed (7ced3719: "slub: Acquire_slab() avoid loop") actually did the loop exit early very intentionally (the hint being that "avoid loop" part of that commit message), exactly to avoid this issue. The correct thing to do may be to pick some kind of reasonable middle ground: instead of breaking out of the loop on the very first sign of contention, or trying over and over and over again, the right thing may be to re-try _once_, and then give up on the second failure (or pick your favorite value for "once"..). Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210301080404.GF12822@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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