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Message-ID: <20200629181625.4b87a63a@oasis.local.home>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:16:25 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@...abs.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding
synchronize_rcu for each CPU
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:34:03 +1000
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com> wrote:
> Batch these up so we disable all the per-cpu buffers first, then
> synchronize_rcu() once, then reset each of the buffers. This brings
> the time down to about 0.5s.
After applying this patch, running tools/testing/selftests/ftracetest
went from 5 minutes and 35 seconds to 5 minutes 5 seconds to complete
on my 4 core (8 with hyperthreading) machine! That's almost a 10% drop!
Thanks, I'm definitely applying this for the next merge window.
-- Steve
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