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From: <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
To: mhocko@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com, minchan@kernel.org,
	ying.huang@intel.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: try to optimize branch procedures.
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:19:10 +0800 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201711281719103258154@zte.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171128080339.i3ktwm565pz7om4v@dhcp22.suse.cz>


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> On Tue 28-11-17 09:49:45, Jiang Biao wrote:> > 1. Use unlikely to try to improve branch prediction. The
> > *total_scan < 0* branch is unlikely to reach, so use unlikely.
> >
> > 2. Optimize *next_deferred >= scanned* condition.
> > *next_deferred >= scanned* condition could be optimized into
> > *next_deferred > scanned*, because when *next_deferred == scanned*,
> > next_deferred shoud be 0, which is covered by the else branch.
> >
> > 3. Merge two branch blocks into one. The *next_deferred > 0* branch
> > could be merged into *next_deferred > scanned* to simplify the code.
> 
> How have you measured benefit of this patch?
No accurate measurement for now.
Theoretically, unlikely could improve branch prediction for unlikely branch.
It's hard to measure the benefit of 2 and 3, any idea to do that enlightened 
would be greatly appreciated. :) But it could simply code logic from coding 
perspective。

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-28  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28  1:49 [PATCH] mm/vmscan: try to optimize branch procedures Jiang Biao
2017-11-28  8:03 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-28  9:19   ` jiang.biao2 [this message]
2017-11-28  9:31     ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-28  9:46     ` Mel Gorman
2017-11-28  9:40 ` Mel Gorman

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