Commit 9fa26fb5 authored by Colin Ian King's avatar Colin Ian King Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/mincore: improve performance by adding an unlikely hint

Adding an unlikely() hint on the masked start comparison error return path
improves run-time performance of the mincore system call.

Benchmarking on an i9-12900 shows an improvement of 7ns on mincore calls
on a 256KB mmap'd region where 50% of the pages we resident.  Improvement
was from ~970 ns down to 963 ns, so a small ~0.7% improvement.

Results based on running 20 tests with turbo disabled (to reduce clock
freq turbo changes), with 10 second run per test and comparing the number
of mincores calls per second.  The % standard deviation of the 20 tests
was ~0.10%, so results are reliable.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219083607.5183-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarColin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 375c28a0
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