Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2023 02:48:53 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault |
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote: > On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote: > >> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is > >> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault(). > > > > "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()". > > > > However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization? > > > > > > If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant. > > if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible > compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
I suggest you measure it.
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