[RFC][PATCH 0/3] impelemnt cgroup_(subsys)_disabled in generic.

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Wed Nov 23 2011 - 03:29:49 EST



Now, memory cgroup has 'mem_cgroup_disabled()' in memcontrol.h

I made a brief trial to use static_branch() for that function. At doing that,
I thought it will be better to implement generic cgroup functions rather
than having memory cgroup's its own one.

This series consists of 3 patches
1 .... implement cgroup_xxxx_disabled() in generic.
2 .... use jump_label for cgroup_xxxx_disabled()
3 .... remove mem_cgroup_disabled() in memcontrol.c

And I post this series for getting review/comments.
I'm not sure patches for using jump_label is worth to be merged.

I did a test to run a loop
while(-) {
mmap(1M)
touch all pages
munmap()
}

and measured performance score in ROOT cgroup. Here,

(Before patch)
182,932,842,128 cycles # 0.000 GHz [33.33%]
192,711,643,877 instructions # 1.05 insns per cycle [49.99%]
761,483,416 cache-references [49.98%]
159,908 cache-misses # 0.021 % of all cache refs [50.00%]
33,253,084,874 branches [33.34%]
109,796,792 branch-misses # 0.33% of all branches [33.34%]

58.289265709 seconds time elapsed

(After patch)
Performance counter stats for './malloc 1':

183,068,407,487 cycles # 0.000 GHz [33.33%]
191,834,248,678 instructions # 1.05 insns per cycle [50.00%]
798,635,028 cache-references [49.98%]
95,562 cache-misses # 0.012 % of all cache refs [50.00%]
32,755,318,286 branches [33.34%]
77,774,624 branch-misses # 0.24% of all branches [33.34%]

58.332356996 seconds time elapsed

There is no differece in 'time' ;)
But I got an impression that 'branch' score gets better in several tests.

Thanks,
-Kame

P.S. maybe I can replace 'do_swap_account' with jump_label, too.



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