linux-kernel - [RFC] [PATCH 7/9] memcg: charge likely success

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:20:02 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, "xemul@...nvz.org" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"hugh@...itas.com" <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, menage@...gle.com
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH 7/9] memcg: charge likely success

In fast path, res_counter_charge() will success.
This annotation 'unlikely' works very well to make footprint shorter.
(And you can see the benefit of this by some benchmarks.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Index: mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(stru
 		css_get(&memcg->css);
 	}
 
-	while (res_counter_charge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE)) {
+	while (unlikely(res_counter_charge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE))) {
 		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
 			goto out;
 

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/