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Commit 9b1ea29b authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarkernel 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: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d3110f25
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