[RFC] [PATCH 7/9] memcg: charge likely success

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

In fast path, res_counter_charge() will success.
This annotation 'unlikely' works very well to make footprint shorter.
(And you can see the benefit of this by some benchmarks.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(stru
 		css_get(&memcg->css);
 	}
 
-	while (res_counter_charge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE)) {
+	while (unlikely(res_counter_charge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE))) {
 		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
 			goto out;
 

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