linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] perf, core: disable pmu while context rotation only if needed

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Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:55:18 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] perf, core: disable pmu while context rotation only
 if needed

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:38 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:34 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > I detest asymmetric locking like that, does something like the below
> > also work for you?
> > 
> It does.

ok, great.

> >  
> > +	if (!rotate && !freq)
> > +		goto done;
> > +
> >  	perf_ctx_lock(cpuctx, cpuctx->task_ctx);
> >  	perf_pmu_disable(cpuctx->ctx.pmu);
> > +
> > +	if (!freq)
> > +		goto rotate;
> > +
> Why goto, why not
> 
> 	if (freq) {
> >  	perf_ctx_adjust_freq(&cpuctx->ctx, interval);
> >  	if (ctx)
> >  		perf_ctx_adjust_freq(ctx, interval);
>         }
> 
> And the same with next goto.

Because, uhm,. dunno. Let me make that if()s and commit the thing.
Thanks!
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