The patch titled Subject: mm: oom: terminate the oom_evaluate_task() loop early has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-oom-terminate-the-oom_evaluate_task-loop-early.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-oom-terminate-the-oom_evaluate_task-loop-early.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: oom: terminate the oom_evaluate_task() loop early Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:34:28 +0800 If task is allocating a lot of memory and has been marked to be killed first, then it gets the highest score (LONG_MAX). Therefore, there is no need to continue to calculate the points of other tasks. Just terminate the oom_evaluate_task() loop early, when the task with the highest score is found. By doing this, we can get some performance gains in select_bad_process(). To implement it, the return value of oom_evaluate_task() is modified. When the task with the highest score is found (points == LONG_MAX), oom_evaluate_task() will return 1 and the loop will terminate early. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814063428.4111206-3-zhangpeng362@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-terminate-the-oom_evaluate_task-loop-early +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task get_task_struct(task); oc->chosen = task; oc->chosen_points = points; + if (points == LONG_MAX) + return 1; next: return 0; abort: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhangpeng362@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-kmsan-use-helper-function-page_size.patch mm-kmsan-use-helper-macro-offset_in_page.patch mm-kmsan-use-helper-macros-page_align-and-page_align_down.patch mm-remove-redundant-k-macro-definition.patch mm-swapfilec-use-helper-macro-k.patch mm-swap_statec-use-helper-macro-k.patch mm-shmemc-use-helper-macro-k.patch mm-nommuc-use-helper-macro-k.patch mm-mmapc-use-helper-macro-k.patch mm-hugetlbc-use-helper-macro-k.patch mm-page_alloc-remove-unused-parameter-from-reserve_highatomic_pageblock.patch mm-oom-remove-unnecessary-goto-in-oom_evaluate_task.patch mm-oom-terminate-the-oom_evaluate_task-loop-early.patch