mm/slab: introduce kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache() for cache destruction
authorHarry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 15:41:47 +0000 (00:41 +0900)
committerVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 17:09:54 +0000 (18:09 +0100)
commit0f35040de59371ad542b915d7b91176c9910dadc
tree087346b3579ce8011a19870458117f65ef02256c
parentb687034b1a4d85333ced0fe07f67b17276cccdc8
mm/slab: introduce kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache() for cache destruction

Currently, kvfree_rcu_barrier() flushes RCU sheaves across all slab
caches when a cache is destroyed. This is unnecessary; only the RCU
sheaves belonging to the cache being destroyed need to be flushed.

As suggested by Vlastimil Babka, introduce a weaker form of
kvfree_rcu_barrier() that operates on a specific slab cache.

Factor out flush_rcu_sheaves_on_cache() from flush_all_rcu_sheaves() and
call it from flush_all_rcu_sheaves() and kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache().

Call kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache() instead of kvfree_rcu_barrier() on
cache destruction.

The performance benefit is evaluated on a 12 core 24 threads AMD Ryzen
5900X machine (1 socket), by loading slub_kunit module.

Before:
  Total calls: 19
  Average latency (us): 18127
  Total time (us): 344414

After:
  Total calls: 19
  Average latency (us): 10066
  Total time (us): 191264

Two performance regression have been reported:
  - stress module loader test's runtime increases by 50-60% (Daniel)
  - internal graphics test's runtime on Tegra234 increases by 35% (Jon)

They are fixed by this change.

Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Fixes: ec66e0d59952 ("slab: add sheaf support for batching kfree_rcu() operations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1bda09da-93be-4737-aef0-d47f8c5c9301@suse.cz
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/0406562e-2066-4cf8-9902-b2b0616dd742@kernel.org
Reported-and-tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/e988eff6-1287-425e-a06c-805af5bbf262@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251207154148.117723-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
include/linux/slab.h
mm/slab.h
mm/slab_common.c
mm/slub.c