linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] mm, oom: do not loop over all tasks if there are no external tasks sharing mm

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 14:40:10 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] mm, oom: do not loop over all tasks if there are no external tasks sharing mm

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

oom_kill_process makes sure to kill all processes outside of the thread
group which are sharing the mm. This requires to iterate over all tasks.
This is however not a common case so we can optimize it a bit and only
do that path only if we know that there are external users of the mm
struct outside of the thread group.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 5bb2f7698ad7..0e33e912f7e4 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -820,6 +820,13 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 	task_unlock(victim);
 
 	/*
+	 * skip expensive iterations over all tasks if we know that there
+	 * are no users outside of threads in the same thread group
+	 */
+	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= get_nr_threads(victim))
+		goto oom_reap;
+
+	/*
 	 * Kill all user processes sharing victim->mm in other thread groups, if
 	 * any.  They don't get access to memory reserves, though, to avoid
 	 * depletion of all memory.  This prevents mm->mmap_sem livelock when an
@@ -848,6 +855,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
+oom_reap:
 	if (can_oom_reap)
 		wake_oom_reaper(victim);
 
-- 
2.8.1