perf/core: Reduce context switch overhead
authorleilei.lin <leilei.lin@alibaba-inc.com>
Wed, 9 Aug 2017 00:29:21 +0000 (08:29 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:08:40 +0000 (12:08 +0200)
commitfdccc3fb7a42ea4e4cd77d2fb8fa3a45c66ec0bf
tree0bc643ab390edab5ded23a9fd381f058425a8438
parentab027620e95987b5f0145013090a109b4152d23b
perf/core: Reduce context switch overhead

Skip most of the PMU context switching overhead when ctx->nr_events is 0.

50% performance overhead was observed under an extreme testcase.

Signed-off-by: leilei.lin <leilei.lin@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: linxiulei@gmail.com
Cc: yang_oliver@hotmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809002921.69813-1-leilei.lin@alibaba-inc.com
[ Rewrote the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c