linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines

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Message-ID: <49E7C74A.8030100@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:03:22 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
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	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...stic.org>,
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	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> The other point I dislike about the out-of-line approach is that the
> tracer will suffer from a pointless supplementary function call at each
> event. Given how slow function calls are, at least on x86, I'd prefer
> leaving the handler call chain inline, unless there is a very strong
> reason not to do so.
>   

Are they?  They're generally considered to be "free", because the call 
and return are predicted 100% accurately.

> I'll come up with a patch that leaves the tracepoint inline, but fixes
> the header dependency.
>   
OK.

    J
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