From 93459c6cb9816c52200993d29dd18cea1daee335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:23:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: only add splice page if entries exist The splice code allocates a page even when the ring buffer is empty. It detects the ring buffer being empty when it it fails to copy anything from the ring buffer into the page. This patch adds a check to see if there is anything in the ring buffer before allocating a page. Thanks to logdev for letting me trace the tracer to find this. [ Impact: speed up due to removing unnecessary allocation ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 9058240..0aeb3b9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3508,7 +3508,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, .spd_release = buffer_spd_release, }; struct buffer_ref *ref; - int size, i; + int entries, size, i; size_t ret; if (*ppos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) { @@ -3523,7 +3523,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, len &= PAGE_MASK; } - for (i = 0; i < PIPE_BUFFERS && len; i++, len -= PAGE_SIZE) { + entries = ring_buffer_entries_cpu(info->tr->buffer, info->cpu); + + for (i = 0; i < PIPE_BUFFERS && len && entries; i++, len -= PAGE_SIZE) { struct page *page; int r; @@ -3564,6 +3566,8 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, spd.partial[i].private = (unsigned long)ref; spd.nr_pages++; *ppos += PAGE_SIZE; + + entries = ring_buffer_entries_cpu(info->tr->buffer, info->cpu); } spd.nr_pages = i; -- 2.7.4