mm/slab: put the freelist at the end of slab page

mm/slab: put the freelist at the end of slab page

Currently, the freelist is at the front of slab page.  This requires extra
space to meet object alignment requirement.  If we put the freelist at the
end of slab page, object could start at page boundary and will be at
correct alignment.  This is possible because freelist has no alignment
constraint itself.

This gives us two benefits.  It removes extra memory space for the
freelist alignment and remove complex calculation at cache initialization
step.  I can't think notable drawback here.

I mentioned that this would reduce extra memory space, but, this benefit
is rather theoretical because it can be applied to very few cases.
Following is the example cache type that can get benefit from this change.

size align num before after
32 8 124 4100 4092
64 8 63 4103 4095
88 8 46 4102 4094
272 8 15 4103 4095
408 8 10 4098 4090
32 16 124 4108 4092
64 16 63 4111 4095
32 32 124 4124 4092
64 32 63 4127 4095
96 32 42 4106 4074

before means whole size for objects and aligned freelist before applying
patch and after shows the result of this patch.

Since before is more than 4096, number of object should decrease and
memory waste happens.

Anyway, this patch removes complex calculation so looks beneficial to me.

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>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>