On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 03:20:57PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

Changes since v2 [5]:
* Rebase to 5.14-rc3
* A number of fixes to the RT parts, big thanks to Mike Galbraith for testing
  and debugging!
  * The largest fix is to protect kmem_cache_cpu->partial by local_lock instead
    of cmpxchg tricks, which are insufficient on RT. To avoid divergence
    between RT and !RT, just do it everywhere. Affected mainly patch 25 and a
    new patch 33. This also addresses a theoretical race raised earlier by Jann
    Horn.
* Smaller fixes reported by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior and Cyrill Gorcunov

Changes since RFC v1 [1]:
* Addressed feedback from Christoph and Mel, added their acks.
* Finished RT conversion, adopting 2 patches from the RT tree.
* The local_lock conversion has to sacrifice lockless fathpaths on PREEMPT_RT
* Added some more cleanup patches to the front.

This series was initially inspired by Mel's pcplist local_lock rewrite, and
also interest to better understand SLUB's locking and the new primitives and RT
variants and implications. It should make SLUB more preemption-friendly,
especially for RT, hopefully without noticeable regressions, as the fast paths
are not affected.

Series is based on 5.14-rc3 and also available as a git branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/log/?h=slub-local-lock-v3r1

FWIW, I ran a corrected version of this series through a few tests. Some
small gains, no major regressions in terms of performance on a !PREEMPT_RT
configuration across 6 different machines.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs