linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm, memcg: avoid unnecessary function call when memcg is disabled

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:07:28 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, memcg: avoid unnecessary function call when memcg is
 disabled

On Mon 19-11-12 17:44:34, David Rientjes wrote:
> While profiling numa/core v16 with cgroup_disable=memory on the command 
> line, I noticed mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() still showed up as high as 
> 0.60% in perftop.
> 
> This occurs because the function is called extremely often even when memcg 
> is disabled.
> 
> To fix this, inline the check for mem_cgroup_disabled() so we avoid the 
> unnecessary function call if memcg is disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

Thanks!

> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |    9 ++++++++-
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |    9 ++++-----
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -181,7 +181,14 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
>  						gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  						unsigned long *total_scanned);
>  
> -void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx);
> +void __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx);
> +static inline void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +					     enum vm_event_item idx)
> +{
> +	if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !mm)
> +		return;
> +	__mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(mm, idx);
> +}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  void mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(struct page *head);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
>  #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
>  
>  struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys __read_mostly;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_subsys);
> +
>  #define MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES	5
>  static struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup __read_mostly;
>  
> @@ -1015,13 +1017,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_iter_break(struct mem_cgroup *root,
>  	     iter != NULL;				\
>  	     iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, NULL))
>  
> -void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
> +void __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
>  {
>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>  
> -	if (!mm)
> -		return;
> -
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
>  	if (unlikely(!memcg))
> @@ -1040,7 +1039,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
>  out:
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_count_vm_event);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mem_cgroup_count_vm_event);
>  
>  /**
>   * mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec - get the lru list vector for a zone and memcg
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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