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mm: remove misleading 'unlikely' hint in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Fri, 4 Oct 2024 16:48:31 +0000 (09:48 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 7 Nov 2024 04:11:09 +0000 (20:11 -0800)
commit04f315a7dc43a097050534679600974592494a22
tree4cef9e6b0a957629bc2f931cc000f94642500f50
parentb314e21596a48d21a88b8c6a98ecfea8d7b2d2a1
mm: remove misleading 'unlikely' hint in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()

Performance analysis using branch annotation on a fleet of 200 hosts
running web servers revealed that the 'unlikely' hint in
vms_gather_munmap_vmas() was 100% consistently incorrect.  In all observed
cases, the branch behavior contradicted the hint.

Remove the 'unlikely' qualifier from the condition checking 'vms->uf'.  By
doing so, we allow the compiler to make optimization decisions based on
its own heuristics and profiling data, rather than relying on a static
hint that has proven to be inaccurate in real-world scenarios.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241004164832.218681-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vma.c