• Peter Zijlstra's avatar
    perf: Add unlikely() to the ring-buffer code · c72b42a3
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    Add unlikely() annotations to 'slow' paths:
    
    When having a sampling event but no output buffer; you have bigger
    issues -- also the bail is still faster than actually doing the work.
    
    When having a sampling event but a control page only buffer, you have
    bigger issues -- again the bail is still faster than actually doing
    work.
    
    Optimize for the case where you're not loosing events -- again, not
    doing the work is still faster but make sure that when you have to
    actually do work its as fast as possible.
    
    The typical watermark is 1/2 the buffer size, so most events will not
    take this path.
    
    Shrinks perf_output_begin() by 16 bytes on x86_64-defconfig.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
    Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
    Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlg3jew3qnutm8opd0hyeuwn@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    c72b42a3
ring_buffer.c 8.67 KB