linux/kernel/events
Peter Zijlstra 0f5a260128 perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
Gleb writes:

 > Currently pmu is disabled and re-enabled on each timer interrupt even
 > when no rotation or frequency adjustment is needed. On Intel CPU this
 > results in two writes into PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR per tick. On bare metal
 > it does not cause significant slowdown, but when running perf in a virtual
 > machine it leads to 20% slowdown on my machine.

Cure this by keeping a perf_event_context::nr_freq counter that counts the
number of active events that require frequency adjustments and use this in a
similar fashion to the already existing nr_events != nr_active test in
perf_rotate_context().

By being able to exclude both rotation and frequency adjustments a-priory for
the common case we can avoid the otherwise superfluous PMU disable.

Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-515yhoatehd3gza7we9fapaa@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:33:52 +01:00
..
callchain.c perf: Carve out callchain functionality 2011-11-14 13:31:26 +01:00
core.c perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick 2011-12-06 08:33:52 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Add context field to perf_event 2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
internal.h Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2011-12-06 06:43:49 +01:00
Makefile perf: Carve out callchain functionality 2011-11-14 13:31:26 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event 2011-12-05 09:33:03 +01:00