From: Witold Baryluk 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 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- 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 */ -- 1.6.2 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/