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From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How performance critical is fsys_rt_sigprocmask()?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:51:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314215491.3611.49.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314196796.3611.38.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 09:13 -0600, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> As I remember it, it was the single system-call on the critical path of
> libunwind.  Don't remember the numbers, but it was significant.

Interesting. So that'd be the critical path for things like performance
analysis tools that record stack traces? Yeah, I can see how you'd want
the stack trace recording to have very little overhead.

I guess I'll start writing ia64 assembly then...

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24 14:39 How performance critical is fsys_rt_sigprocmask()? Matt Fleming
2011-08-24 19:51 ` Matt Fleming [this message]

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