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[021/181] mm/slub.c: branch optimization in free slowpath

Message ID 20201013234840.43ZfRzqi3%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [001/181] compiler-clang: add build check for clang 10.0.1 | expand

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Andrew Morton Oct. 13, 2020, 11:48 p.m. UTC 
From: Abel Wu <wuyun.wu@huawei.com>
Subject: 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

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

 mm/slub.c |   23 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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Patch

--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-branch-optimization-in-free-slowpath
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -3019,20 +3019,21 @@  static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach
 
 	if (likely(!n)) {
 
-		/*
-		 * If we just froze the page then put it onto the
-		 * per cpu partial list.
-		 */
-		if (new.frozen && !was_frozen) {
+		if (likely(was_frozen)) {
+			/*
+			 * The list lock was not taken therefore no list
+			 * activity can be necessary.
+			 */
+			stat(s, FREE_FROZEN);
+		} else if (new.frozen) {
+			/*
+			 * If we just froze the page then put it onto the
+			 * per cpu partial list.
+			 */
 			put_cpu_partial(s, page, 1);
 			stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_FREE);
 		}
-		/*
-		 * The list lock was not taken therefore no list
-		 * activity can be necessary.
-		 */
-		if (was_frozen)
-			stat(s, FREE_FROZEN);
+
 		return;
 	}