From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 3/5] jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:10:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8E275F.6010801@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317938775.4729.29.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On 10/06/2011 03:06 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> But it only speeds up the tracing case. The non-tracing case is a nop
> and 5bytes is 5bytes regardless.
>
> Did you see a 5% speed up while tracing was happening? How did you do
> your test. I find a 5 byte compared to a 2 byte jump being negligible
> with the rest of the overhead of tracing, but I could be wrong.
You're right, this was a completely artificial microbenchmark. In
practice the improvement would be a much smaller effect.
But bear in mind, I'm not using jump-label for tracing. While its
important for the "disabled" state to be quick, performance of the
"enabled" state is also important.
Thanks,
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-01 21:55 [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] jump-label: allow early jump_label_enable() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 1/5] jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 2/5] stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-02 0:36 ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-03 19:24 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-03 19:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 3/5] jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-03 15:02 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-03 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-03 16:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-04 14:10 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-04 15:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-04 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-04 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-04 17:53 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-04 18:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 0:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 0:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 17:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 18:10 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 21:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 22:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 18:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 18:33 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 18:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 18:43 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 18:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 18:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 18:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 18:38 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 19:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 20:33 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 20:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 18:50 ` Richard Henderson
2011-10-06 19:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 21:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 22:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 22:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2011-10-06 22:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 17:09 ` [PATCH][RFC] jump_labels/x86: Use either 5 byte or 2 byte jumps Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 18:52 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-07 19:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-07 22:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-07 19:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 19:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-07 19:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-10-10 15:36 ` [PATCH RFC V2 3/5] jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out Jason Baron
2011-10-10 19:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-10 20:10 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 4/5] x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 5/5] sparc/jump_label: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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