Commit-ID: 97e7e4f391cac2b00417b581b432533d245d4fd0
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/97e7e4f391cac2b00417b581b432533d245d4fd0
Author: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:15:44 +0100
Commit: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:10:43 -0400
tracing: optimization of branch tracer
Impact: better performance for if branch tracer
Use an array to count the hit and misses of a conditional instead
of using another conditional. This cuts down on saturation of branch
predictions and increases performance of modern pipelined architectures.
Signed-off-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 6 ++----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index d95da10..6faa7e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct ftrace_branch_data {
unsigned long miss;
unsigned long hit;
};
+ unsigned long miss_hit[2];
};
};
@@ -125,10 +126,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
.line = __LINE__, \
}; \
______r = !!(cond); \
- if (______r) \
- ______f.hit++; \
- else \
- ______f.miss++; \
+ ______f.miss_hit[______r]++; \
______r; \
}))
#endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */
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