[patch] mm, memcg: avoid unnecessary function call when memcg isdisabled

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Nov 19 2012 - 20:44:26 EST


While profiling numa/core v16 with cgroup_disable=memory on the command
line, I noticed mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() still showed up as high as
0.60% in perftop.

This occurs because the function is called extremely often even when memcg
is disabled.

To fix this, inline the check for mem_cgroup_disabled() so we avoid the
unnecessary function call if memcg is disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 9 ++++++++-
mm/memcontrol.c | 9 ++++-----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -181,7 +181,14 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned long *total_scanned);

-void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx);
+void __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx);
+static inline void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ enum vm_event_item idx)
+{
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !mm)
+ return;
+ __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(mm, idx);
+}
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
void mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(struct page *head);
#endif
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
#include <trace/events/vmscan.h>

struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_subsys);
+
#define MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES 5
static struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup __read_mostly;

@@ -1015,13 +1017,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_iter_break(struct mem_cgroup *root,
iter != NULL; \
iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, NULL))

-void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
+void __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;

- if (!mm)
- return;
-
rcu_read_lock();
memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
if (unlikely(!memcg))
@@ -1040,7 +1039,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
out:
rcu_read_unlock();
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_count_vm_event);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mem_cgroup_count_vm_event);

/**
* mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec - get the lru list vector for a zone and memcg
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