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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slub_def.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h index 6b657f7dcb2..9e3a575b2c3 100644 --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h @@ -122,10 +122,23 @@ struct kmem_cache { #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE) /* + * Maximum kmalloc object size handled by SLUB. Larger object allocations + * are passed through to the page allocator. The page allocator "fastpath" + * is relatively slow so we need this value sufficiently high so that + * performance critical objects are allocated through the SLUB fastpath. + * + * This should be dropped to PAGE_SIZE / 2 once the page allocator + * "fastpath" becomes competitive with the slab allocator fastpaths. + */ +#define SLUB_MAX_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE) + +#define SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + 1) + +/* * We keep the general caches in an array of slab caches that are used for * 2^x bytes of allocations. */ -extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[PAGE_SHIFT + 1]; +extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT]; /* * Sorry that the following has to be that ugly but some versions of GCC @@ -231,7 +244,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) void *ret; if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) { - if (size > PAGE_SIZE) + if (size > SLUB_MAX_SIZE) return kmalloc_large(size, flags); if (!(flags & SLUB_DMA)) { @@ -275,7 +288,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) void *ret; if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && - size <= PAGE_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) { + size <= SLUB_MAX_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) { struct kmem_cache *s = kmalloc_slab(size); if (!s) |