mm/slub.c: branch optimization in free slowpath
authorAbel Wu <wuyun.wu@huawei.com>
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:48:40 +0000 (16:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:38:27 +0000 (18:38 -0700)
commitc270cf3041a5cb7c5853d45a794309e66576493a
tree53ec5da29e62574e8b50ce6bd1019c7e02964ad6
parentd7cff4ded857ff7cc3e49eb39cc14df9345b9662
mm/slub.c: branch optimization in free slowpath

The two conditions are mutually exclusive and gcc compiler will optimise
this into if-else-like pattern.  Given that the majority of free_slowpath
is free_frozen, let's provide some hint to the compilers.

Tests (perf bench sched messaging -g 20 -l 400000, executed 10x
after reboot) are done and the summarized result:

un-patched patched
max. 192.316 189.851
min. 187.267 186.252
avg. 189.154 188.086
stdev. 1.37 0.99

Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.wu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Hewenliang <hewenliang4@huawei.com>
Cc: Hu Shiyuan <hushiyuan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200813101812.1617-1-wuyun.wu@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slub.c