linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf_event: fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code

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Date:	Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:22:28 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, ming.m.lin@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_event: fix slow and broken cgroup context switch
 code

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:58 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> +static inline void perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
> +                                           struct task_struct *task)
>  {
>         if (static_branch(&perf_sched_events))
> +               __perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, task);
>  }
>  
> +static inline void perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *prev,
> +                                            struct task_struct *next)
>  {
>         perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES, 1, NULL, 0);
>  
> +       if (static_branch(&perf_sched_events))
> +               __perf_event_task_sched_out(prev, next);
>  }

BTW, Ingo, is there any particular reason we have these two calls and
not a single perf_event_task_switch() call?
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