[PATCH 3/5] tracing: optimization of branch tracer

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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From: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>

Impact: better performance for if branch tracer

Use an array to count the hit and misses of a conditional instead
of using another conditional. This cuts down on saturation of branch
predictions and increases performance of modern pipelined architectures.

Signed-off-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler.h |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index d95da10..6faa7e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct ftrace_branch_data {
 			unsigned long miss;
 			unsigned long hit;
 		};
+		unsigned long miss_hit[2];
 	};
 };
 
@@ -125,10 +126,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
 				.line = __LINE__,			\
 			};						\
 		______r = !!(cond);					\
-		if (______r)						\
-			______f.hit++;					\
-		else							\
-			______f.miss++;					\
+		______f.miss_hit[______r]++;					\
 		______r;						\
 	}))
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */
-- 
1.6.2

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