dm raid1: switch read_record from kmalloc to slab to save memory
With my previous patch to save bi_io_vec, the size of dm_raid1_read_record
is significantly increased (the vector list takes 3072 bytes on 32-bit machines
and 4096 bytes on 64-bit machines).
The structure dm_raid1_read_record used to be allocated with kmalloc,
but kmalloc aligns the size on the next power-of-two so an object
slightly greater than 4096 will allocate 8192 bytes of memory and half of
that memory will be wasted.
This patch turns kmalloc into a slab cache which doesn't have this
padding so it will reduce the memory consumed.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
index 4d6bc10..62d5948 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@
struct dm_bio_details details;
};
+static struct kmem_cache *_dm_raid1_read_record_cache;
+
/*
* Every mirror should look like this one.
*/
@@ -764,9 +766,9 @@
atomic_set(&ms->suspend, 0);
atomic_set(&ms->default_mirror, DEFAULT_MIRROR);
- len = sizeof(struct dm_raid1_read_record);
- ms->read_record_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(MIN_READ_RECORDS,
- len);
+ ms->read_record_pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(MIN_READ_RECORDS,
+ _dm_raid1_read_record_cache);
+
if (!ms->read_record_pool) {
ti->error = "Error creating mirror read_record_pool";
kfree(ms);
@@ -1279,16 +1281,31 @@
{
int r;
- r = dm_register_target(&mirror_target);
- if (r < 0)
- DMERR("Failed to register mirror target");
+ _dm_raid1_read_record_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dm_raid1_read_record, 0);
+ if (!_dm_raid1_read_record_cache) {
+ DMERR("Can't allocate dm_raid1_read_record cache");
+ r = -ENOMEM;
+ goto bad_cache;
+ }
+ r = dm_register_target(&mirror_target);
+ if (r < 0) {
+ DMERR("Failed to register mirror target");
+ goto bad_target;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+
+bad_target:
+ kmem_cache_destroy(_dm_raid1_read_record_cache);
+bad_cache:
return r;
}
static void __exit dm_mirror_exit(void)
{
dm_unregister_target(&mirror_target);
+ kmem_cache_destroy(_dm_raid1_read_record_cache);
}
/* Module hooks */