Re: [PATCH 03/12] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary taking of a seqlock when cpusets are disabled

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 24-08-15 13:09:42, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There is a seqcounter that protects against spurious allocation failures
> when a task is changing the allowed nodes in a cpuset. There is no need
> to check the seqcounter until a cpuset exists.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/cpuset.h | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
> index 1b357997cac5..6eb27cb480b7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
> @@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ extern void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
>   */
>  static inline unsigned int read_mems_allowed_begin(void)
>  {
> +	if (!cpusets_enabled())
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	return read_seqcount_begin(&current->mems_allowed_seq);
>  }
>  
> @@ -115,6 +118,9 @@ static inline unsigned int read_mems_allowed_begin(void)
>   */
>  static inline bool read_mems_allowed_retry(unsigned int seq)
>  {
> +	if (!cpusets_enabled())
> +		return false;
> +
>  	return read_seqcount_retry(&current->mems_allowed_seq, seq);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.4.6

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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