mm, page_alloc: add unlikely macro to help compiler optimization We rarely allocate a page with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS and it is used in slow path. For helping compiler optimization, add unlikely macro to ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS checking. This patch doesn't have any effect now, because gcc already optimize this properly. But we cannot assume that gcc always does right and nobody re-evaluate if gcc do proper optimization with their change, for example, it is not optimized properly on v3.10. So adding compiler hint here is reasonable. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 544d19d..42c5930 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1909,7 +1909,7 @@ !cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask)) continue; BUILD_BUG_ON(ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS < NR_WMARK); - if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) + if (unlikely(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS)) goto try_this_zone; /* * Distribute pages in proportion to the individual