Commit 3286222f authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, slub: better heuristic for number of cpus when calculating slab order

When creating a new kmem cache, SLUB determines how large the slab pages
will based on number of inputs, including the number of CPUs in the
system.  Larger slab pages mean that more objects can be allocated/free
from per-cpu slabs before accessing shared structures, but also
potentially more memory can be wasted due to low slab usage and
fragmentation.  The rough idea of using number of CPUs is that larger
systems will be more likely to benefit from reduced contention, and also
should have enough memory to spare.

Number of CPUs used to be determined as nr_cpu_ids, which is number of
possible cpus, but on some systems many will never be onlined, thus
commit 045ab8c9 ("mm/slub: let number of online CPUs determine the
slub page order") changed it to nr_online_cpus().  However, for kmem
caches created early before CPUs are onlined, this may lead to
permamently low slab page sizes.

Vincent reports a regression [1] of hackbench on ...
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