[PATCH RFC v3 0/9] SLUB percpu array caches and maple tree nodes

[Christoph Lameter (Ampere)]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

>> In order to make the SLUB in page freelists work better you need to have
>> larger freelist and that comes with larger page sizes. I.e. boot with
>> slub_min_order=5 or so to increase performance.
>
> That comes with its own problems, of course.

Well I thought you were solving those with the folios?

>> Also this means increasing TLB pressure. The in page freelists of SLUB cause
>> objects from the same page be served. The SLAB queueing approach
>> results in objects being mixed from any address and thus neighboring objects
>> may require more TLB entries.
>
> Is that still a concern for modern CPUs?  We're using 1GB TLB entries
> these days, and there are usually thousands of TLB entries.  This feels
> like more of a concern for a 90s era CPU.

ARM kernel memory is mapped by 4K entries by default since rodata=full is 
the default. Security concerns screw it up.