On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Bharata B Rao wrote:

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The problem is that calculate_order() is called a number of times
before secondaries CPUs are booted and it returns 1 instead of 224.
This makes the use of num_online_cpus() irrelevant for those cases

After adding in my command line "slub_min_objects=36" which equals to
4 * (fls(num_online_cpus()) + 1) with a correct num_online_cpus == 224
, the regression diseapears:

9 iterations of hackbench -l 16000 -g 16: 3.201sec (+/- 0.90%)

Should we have switched to num_present_cpus() rather than
num_online_cpus()? If so, the below patch should address the
above problem.

There is certainly an initcall after secondaries are booted where we could
redo the calculate_order?

Or the num_online_cpus needs to be up to date earlier. Why does this issue
not occur on x86? Does x86 have an up to date num_online_cpus earlier?