From f44666b04605d1c7fd94ab90b7ccf633e7eff228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:57:27 -0700 Subject: mm,oom: speed up select_bad_process() loop Since commit 3a5dda7a17cf ("oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics"), select_bad_process() is using for_each_process_thread(). Since oom_unkillable_task() scans all threads in the caller's thread group and oom_task_origin() scans signal_struct of the caller's thread group, we don't need to call oom_unkillable_task() and oom_task_origin() on each thread. Also, since !mm test will be done later at oom_badness(), we don't need to do !mm test on each thread. Therefore, we only need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. Although the original code was correct it was quite inefficient because each thread group was scanned num_threads times which can be a lot especially with processes with many threads. Even though the OOM is extremely cold path it is always good to be as effective as possible when we are inside rcu_read_lock() - aka unpreemptible context. If we track number of TIF_MEMDIE threads inside signal_struct, we don't need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. This will allow select_bad_process() to use for_each_process(). This patch adds a counter to signal_struct for tracking how many TIF_MEMDIE threads are in a given thread group, and check it at oom_scan_process_thread() so that select_bad_process() can use for_each_process() rather than for_each_process_thread(). [mhocko@suse.com: do not blow the signal_struct size] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520075035.GF19172@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201605182230.IDC73435.MVSOHLFOQFOJtF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 479e3cade7e9..01fe1bb68754 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ struct signal_struct { atomic_t sigcnt; atomic_t live; int nr_threads; + atomic_t oom_victims; /* # of TIF_MEDIE threads in this thread group */ struct list_head thread_head; wait_queue_head_t wait_chldexit; /* for wait4() */ -- cgit v1.2.3