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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