Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Joonsoo Kim <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/9] slab: add unlikely macro to help compiler | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:57:15 +0900 |
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slab_should_failslab() is called on every allocation, so to optimize it is reasonable. We normally don't allocate from kmem_cache. It is just used when new kmem_cache is created, so it's very rare case. Therefore, add unlikely macro to help compiler optimization.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 8347d80..5906f8f 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -3009,7 +3009,7 @@ static void *cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(struct kmem_cache *cachep, static bool slab_should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags) { - if (cachep == kmem_cache) + if (unlikely(cachep == kmem_cache)) return false; return should_failslab(cachep->object_size, flags, cachep->flags); -- 1.7.9.5
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