On 7/7/20 7:36 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Currently memcg_kmem_enabled() is optimized for the kernel memory
> accounting being off. It was so for a long time, and arguably the
> reason behind was that the kernel memory accounting was initially an
> opt-in feature. However, now it's on by default on both cgroup v1
> and cgroup v2, and it's on for all cgroups. So let's switch over
> to static_branch_likely() to reflect this fact.
>
> Unlikely there is a significant performance difference, as the cost
> of a memory allocation and its accounting significantly exceeds the
> cost of a jump. However, the conversion makes the code look more
> logically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index b8f52a3fed90..ab9322215b2e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ void memcg_put_cache_ids(void);
>
> static inline bool memcg_kmem_enabled(void)
> {
> - return static_branch_unlikely(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key);
> + return static_branch_likely(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key);
> }
>
> static inline bool memcg_kmem_bypass(void)
>
