Re: [PATCH] mm/memcg: add unlikely to mercg->move_charge_at_immigrate

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Mon Jun 18 2012 - 09:19:51 EST


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:09:36PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
>On 06/18/2012 05:10 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>move_charge_at_immigrate feature is disabled by default. Charges
>>are moved only when you move mm->owner and it also add additional
>>overhead.
>
>How big is this overhead?
>
>That's hardly a fast path. And if it happens to matter, it will be
>just bigger when you enable it, and the compiler start giving the
>wrong hints to the code.

Thank you for your quick response.

Oh, Maybe I should just write comments "move_charge_at_immigrate feature
is disabled by default. So add "unlikely", in order to compiler can optimize."

Best Regards,
Wanpeng Li

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