Re: [PATCH] perf, core: rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:59:09PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
> cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
> from userspace by unprivileged user. When user runs loop like this
> "while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done" the performance of my
> test application that just increments a counter for one second drops by
> 4%. This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of
> them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be much worse.
> Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf
> record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event
> frequently.
> 
> This patch introduce the way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses
> it to fix above problem. I believe that as jump_label use will spread
> the problem will become more common and thus solving it in a generic
> code is appropriate. Also fixing it in a perf code will result in moving
> jump_label accounting logic to perf code with all the ifdefs in case
> of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this patch all details are nicely hidden
> inside jump_label code.
> 

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

Thanks,

-Jason