mm/slab: reverse iteration on find_mergeable()
Unlike SLUB, sometimes, object isn't started at the beginning of the slab in the SLAB. This causes the unalignment problem when after slab merging is supported by commit 12220dea ("mm/slab: support slab merge"). Alignment mismatch check is introduced ("mm/slab: fix unalignment problem on Malta with EVA due to slab merge") to prevent merge in this case. This causes undesirable result that merging happens between infrequently used kmem_caches if there are kmem_caches with same size and is 256 bytes, are merged into pool_workqueue rather than kmalloc-256, because kmem_caches for kmalloc are at the tail of the list. To prevent this situation, this patch reverses iteration order in find_mergeable() to find frequently used kmem_caches. This change helps to merge kmem_cache to frequently used kmem_caches, such as kmalloc kmem_caches. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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