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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2006-12-13 00:34:27 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-13 09:05:49 -0800
commit6a2d7a955d8de6cb19ed9cd194b3c83008a22c32 (patch)
treedc440341412a45a7c1f363dcaa1505fe711eadec
parent02a0e53d8227aff5e62e0433f82c12c1c2805fd6 (diff)
[PATCH] SLAB: use a multiply instead of a divide in obj_to_index()
When some objects are allocated by one CPU but freed by another CPU we can consume lot of cycles doing divides in obj_to_index(). (Typical load on a dual processor machine where network interrupts are handled by one particular CPU (allocating skbufs), and the other CPU is running the application (consuming and freeing skbufs)) Here on one production server (dual-core AMD Opteron 285), I noticed this divide took 1.20 % of CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events in kernel. But Opteron are quite modern cpus and the divide is much more expensive on oldest architectures : On a 200 MHz sparcv9 machine, the division takes 64 cycles instead of 1 cycle for a multiply. Doing some math, we can use a reciprocal multiplication instead of a divide. If we want to compute V = (A / B) (A and B being u32 quantities) we can instead use : V = ((u64)A * RECIPROCAL(B)) >> 32 ; where RECIPROCAL(B) is precalculated to ((1LL << 32) + (B - 1)) / B Note : I wrote pure C code for clarity. gcc output for i386 is not optimal but acceptable : mull 0x14(%ebx) mov %edx,%eax // part of the >> 32 xor %edx,%edx // useless mov %eax,(%esp) // could be avoided mov %edx,0x4(%esp) // useless mov (%esp),%ebx [akpm@osdl.org: small cleanups] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/reciprocal_div.h32
-rw-r--r--lib/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--lib/reciprocal_div.c9
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c18
4 files changed, 57 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/reciprocal_div.h b/include/linux/reciprocal_div.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f9c90b33285
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/reciprocal_div.h
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_RECIPROCAL_DIV_H
+#define _LINUX_RECIPROCAL_DIV_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/*
+ * This file describes reciprocical division.
+ *
+ * This optimizes the (A/B) problem, when A and B are two u32
+ * and B is a known value (but not known at compile time)
+ *
+ * The math principle used is :
+ * Let RECIPROCAL_VALUE(B) be (((1LL << 32) + (B - 1))/ B)
+ * Then A / B = (u32)(((u64)(A) * (R)) >> 32)
+ *
+ * This replaces a divide by a multiply (and a shift), and
+ * is generally less expensive in CPU cycles.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Computes the reciprocal value (R) for the value B of the divisor.
+ * Should not be called before each reciprocal_divide(),
+ * or else the performance is slower than a normal divide.
+ */
+extern u32 reciprocal_value(u32 B);
+
+
+static inline u32 reciprocal_divide(u32 A, u32 R)
+{
+ return (u32)(((u64)A * R) >> 32);
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 2d6106af53c..c9ec8f11e83 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o radix-tree.o dump_stack.o \
idr.o div64.o int_sqrt.o bitmap.o extable.o prio_tree.o \
- sha1.o irq_regs.o
+ sha1.o irq_regs.o reciprocal_div.o
lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += ioremap.o
lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o
diff --git a/lib/reciprocal_div.c b/lib/reciprocal_div.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6a3bd48fa2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/reciprocal_div.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#include <asm/div64.h>
+#include <linux/reciprocal_div.h>
+
+u32 reciprocal_value(u32 k)
+{
+ u64 val = (1LL << 32) + (k - 1);
+ do_div(val, k);
+ return (u32)val;
+}
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index b856786a3a3..909975f6e09 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
#include <linux/rtmutex.h>
+#include <linux/reciprocal_div.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -386,6 +387,7 @@ struct kmem_cache {
unsigned int shared;
unsigned int buffer_size;
+ u32 reciprocal_buffer_size;
/* 3) touched by every alloc & free from the backend */
struct kmem_list3 *nodelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
@@ -627,10 +629,17 @@ static inline void *index_to_obj(struct kmem_cache *cache, struct slab *slab,
return slab->s_mem + cache->buffer_size * idx;
}
-static inline unsigned int obj_to_index(struct kmem_cache *cache,
- struct slab *slab, void *obj)
+/*
+ * We want to avoid an expensive divide : (offset / cache->buffer_size)
+ * Using the fact that buffer_size is a constant for a particular cache,
+ * we can replace (offset / cache->buffer_size) by
+ * reciprocal_divide(offset, cache->reciprocal_buffer_size)
+ */
+static inline unsigned int obj_to_index(const struct kmem_cache *cache,
+ const struct slab *slab, void *obj)
{
- return (unsigned)(obj - slab->s_mem) / cache->buffer_size;
+ u32 offset = (obj - slab->s_mem);
+ return reciprocal_divide(offset, cache->reciprocal_buffer_size);
}
/*
@@ -1427,6 +1436,8 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
cache_cache.buffer_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.buffer_size,
cache_line_size());
+ cache_cache.reciprocal_buffer_size =
+ reciprocal_value(cache_cache.buffer_size);
for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
cache_estimate(order, cache_cache.buffer_size,
@@ -2313,6 +2324,7 @@ kmem_cache_create (const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
if (flags & SLAB_CACHE_DMA)
cachep->gfpflags |= GFP_DMA;
cachep->buffer_size = size;
+ cachep->reciprocal_buffer_size = reciprocal_value(size);
if (flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB) {
cachep->slabp_cache = kmem_find_general_cachep(slab_size, 0u);