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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier.c: micro-optimization substitute kzalloc with kmalloc
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:42:45AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 06:06:39PM +0200, Mateusz Nosek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I performed simple benchmarks using custom kernel module with the code
> > fragment in question 'copy-pasted' in there in both versions. In case of 1k,
> > 10k and 100k iterations the average time for kzalloc version was 5.1 and for
> > kmalloc 3.9, for each iterations number.
> > The time was measured using 'ktime_get(void)' function and the results given
> > here are in ktime_t units.
> > The machine I use has 4 core Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz CPU.
> >
> > The performance increase happens, but as you wrote it is probably not really
> > noticeable.
>
> I don't think that saving a few cylces of memset() in a function that
> called only on the initialization path in very particular cases is worth
> risking uninitialized variables when somebody will add a new field to
> the 'struct mmu_notifier_subscriptions' and will forget to explicitly
> set it.

Indeed, it is not a common path, it is already very expensive if code
is running here (eg it does mm_take_all_locks()).

So there is no reason at all to optimize this and risk problems down
the road.

Jason

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