set use_alien_caches to 0 on non NUMA platforms. And avoid calling
the cache_free_alien() when use_alien_caches is not set. This will avoid
the cache miss that happens while dereferencing slabp to get nodeid.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
---
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 8fdaffa..146082d 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static inline int cache_free_alien(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
* Make sure we are not freeing a object from another node to the array
* cache on this cpu.
*/
- if (likely(slabp->nodeid == node) || unlikely(!use_alien_caches))
+ if (likely(slabp->nodeid == node))
return 0;
l3 = cachep->nodelists[node];
@@ -1394,6 +1394,9 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
int order;
int node;
+ if (num_possible_nodes() == 1)
+ use_alien_caches = 0;
+
for (i = 0; i < NUM_INIT_LISTS; i++) {
kmem_list3_init(&initkmem_list3[i]);
if (i < MAX_NUMNODES)
@@ -3563,7 +3566,7 @@ static inline void __cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
check_irq_off();
objp = cache_free_debugcheck(cachep, objp, __builtin_return_address(0));
- if (cache_free_alien(cachep, objp))
+ if (use_alien_caches && cache_free_alien(cachep, objp))
return;
if (likely(ac->avail < ac->limit)) {
-
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