Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods
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- Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods
- From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:54 +0200
- Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mingo@xxxxxxxxxx, paulus@xxxxxxxxx, acme@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx, efault@xxxxxx, jeremy@xxxxxxxx, npiggin@xxxxxxx, tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-tip-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 21:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > To a point where it cannot afford a simple register save/restore
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > > > There is "caring" and "_caring_". I am tempted to ask what NMI
> > > > handler execution frequency you have in mind here to figure out
> > > > if we are not trying to optimize sub-nanoseconds per minutes. ;)
> > >
> > > I routinely run 'perf' with half a million NMIs per second or
> > > more. ( Why wait 10 seconds for a profile you can get in 1 second?
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > Granted that is over multiple CPUs - but still performance does
> > > matter here too.
> > >
> > > Reading cr2 is certainly fast. Writing it - dunno.
> >
> > But one thing is sure: it is certainly going to be faster than the
> > INVLPG(s!) we have to do with the GUP solution.
>
> Sure, but we only pay that price when we do the callchain bit, not
> on every NMI.
same goes for the CR2 save/restore trick - it only has to be done
around the code where we expect to generate a #PF. I.e. in the
call-graph bits.
Ingo
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