For systems with high CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT, checking nodes_intersect() for each thread's set of allowed nodes is very expensive. It's unnecessary to do this twice for each thread, once in select_bad_process() and once in oom_badness(). We've already filtered unkillable threads at the point where oom_badness() is called. oom_badness() must still check if a thread is a kthread, however, to ensure /proc/pid/oom_score doesn't report one as killable. This significantly speeds up the tasklist iteration when there are a large number of threads on the system and CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT is high. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -151,13 +151,16 @@ struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p) return NULL; } +static bool is_unkillable_kthread(struct task_struct *p) +{ + return is_global_init(p) || (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD); +} + /* return true if the task is not adequate as candidate victim task. */ static bool oom_unkillable_task(struct task_struct *p, const struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const nodemask_t *nodemask) { - if (is_global_init(p)) - return true; - if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) + if (is_unkillable_kthread(p)) return true; /* When mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() and p is not member of the group */ @@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, { long points; - if (oom_unkillable_task(p, memcg, nodemask)) + if (is_unkillable_kthread(p)) return 0; p = find_lock_task_mm(p); @@ -478,9 +481,8 @@ static void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, if (child->mm == p->mm) continue; - /* - * oom_badness() returns 0 if the thread is unkillable - */ + if (oom_unkillable_task(child, memcg, nodemask)) + continue; child_points = oom_badness(child, memcg, nodemask, totalpages); if (child_points > victim_points) { -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>