linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] perf_events: Optimize the swcounter hotpath

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Message-ID: <tip-a4234bfcf4d72a10a99176cdef007345e9c3b4aa@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:53:42 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	efault@....de, fweisbec@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf_events: Optimize the swcounter hotpath

Commit-ID:  a4234bfcf4d72a10a99176cdef007345e9c3b4aa
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a4234bfcf4d72a10a99176cdef007345e9c3b4aa
Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
AuthorDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:57:59 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:48:27 +0100

perf_events: Optimize the swcounter hotpath

The structure init creates a bit memcpy, which shows
up big time in perf annotate output:

          :      ffffffff810a859d <__perf_sw_event>:
     1.68 :      ffffffff810a859d:       55                      push   %rbp
     1.69 :      ffffffff810a859e:       41 89 fa                mov    %edi,%r10d
     0.01 :      ffffffff810a85a1:       49 89 c9                mov    %rcx,%r9
     0.00 :      ffffffff810a85a4:       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
     1.71 :      ffffffff810a85a6:       b9 16 00 00 00          mov    $0x16,%ecx
     0.00 :      ffffffff810a85ab:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
     0.00 :      ffffffff810a85ae:       48 83 ec 60             sub    $0x60,%rsp
     1.52 :      ffffffff810a85b2:       48 8d 7d a0             lea    -0x60(%rbp),%rdi
    85.20 :      ffffffff810a85b6:       f3 ab                   rep stos %eax,%es:(%rdi)

None of the callees depends on the structure being pre-initialized,
so only initialize ->addr. This gets rid of the memcpy overhead.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index abe1ef4..20df8ab 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -3954,12 +3954,12 @@ out:
 void __perf_sw_event(u32 event_id, u64 nr, int nmi,
 			    struct pt_regs *regs, u64 addr)
 {
-	struct perf_sample_data data = {
-		.addr = addr,
-	};
+	struct perf_sample_data data;
 
-	do_perf_sw_event(PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, event_id, nr, nmi,
-				&data, regs);
+	data.addr = addr;
+	data.raw  = NULL;
+
+	do_perf_sw_event(PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, event_id, nr, nmi, &data, regs);
 }
 
 static void perf_swevent_read(struct perf_event *event)
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