mm, slab: faster active and free stats
Reading /proc/slabinfo or monitoring slabtop(1) can become very expensive if there are many slab caches and if there are very lengthy per-node partial and/or free lists. Commit 07a63c41 ("mm/slab: improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats") addressed the per-node full lists which showed a significant improvement when no objects were freed. This patch has the same motivation and optimizes the remainder of the usecases where there are very lengthy partial and free lists. This patch maintains per-node active_slabs (full and partial) and free_slabs rather than iterating the lists at runtime when reading /proc/slabinfo. When allocating 100GB of slab from a test cache where every slab page is on the partial list, reading /proc/slabinfo (includes all other slab caches on the system) takes ~247ms on average with 48 samples. As a result of this patch, the same read takes ~0.856ms on average. [rientjes@google.com: changelog] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1611081505240.13403@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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