public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:03:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E7C74A.8030100@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416234410.GA20513@Krystal>

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> The other point I dislike about the out-of-line approach is that the
> tracer will suffer from a pointless supplementary function call at each
> event. Given how slow function calls are, at least on x86, I'd prefer
> leaving the handler call chain inline, unless there is a very strong
> reason not to do so.
>   

Are they?  They're generally considered to be "free", because the call 
and return are predicted 100% accurately.

> I'll come up with a patch that leaves the tracepoint inline, but fixes
> the header dependency.
>   
OK.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 17:23 [PATCH 0/8] [GIT PULL] TRACE_EVENT for modules Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/8] tracing: consolidate trace and trace_event headers Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 21:51   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-14 22:04     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 23:44   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-15  1:45     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-15 16:07       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-16  2:34         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-16  2:56           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-16 23:44             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-17  0:03               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-04-17  0:13                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-17  0:18                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-17  0:28                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-17  0:43                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-17  3:05                         ` [PATCH] tracepoints : let subsystem nop-out the tracepoints at build time Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-20  7:12               ` [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines Andi Kleen
2009-04-21 15:51                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-21 17:18                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-21 17:21                     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-21 17:43                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-21 20:28                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-21 21:17                         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-21 21:23                           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-04-21 21:33                             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-22  5:47                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-22  6:07                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-22  6:24                             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-22  7:26                               ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-15  7:04   ` Zhaolei
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 3/8] tracing: make trace_seq operations available for core kernel Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 19:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-15  2:19     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 4/8] tracing/events: move declarations from trace directory to core include Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 5/8] tracing/events: move the ftrace event tracing code to core Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 19:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-15  2:25     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-15  3:40       ` Jiaying Zhang
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 6/8] tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link list Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 7/8] tracing/events: add export symbols for trace events in modules Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT Steven Rostedt
2009-04-15  3:22   ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-14 18:15 ` [PATCH 0/8] [GIT PULL] TRACE_EVENT for modules Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 18:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 18:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 18:33   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 18:35     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 21:04 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-14 21:23   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 21:59     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 21:29   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-04-14 22:00     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 16:53     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-14 21:48   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-14 21:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-14 22:33       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-15  8:29         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16  2:29           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-16 16:52   ` Christoph Hellwig

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=49E7C74A.8030100@goop.org \
    --to=jeremy@goop.org \
    --cc=a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=arjan@infradead.org \
    --cc=compudj@krystal.dyndns.org \
    --cc=eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro \
    --cc=fche@elastic.org \
    --cc=fweisbec@gmail.com \
    --cc=hch@lst.de \
    --cc=jiayingz@google.com \
    --cc=kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=laijs@cn.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=lizf@cn.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=mbligh@google.com \
    --cc=mhiramat@redhat.com \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=mrubin@google.com \
    --cc=nhorman@tuxdriver.com \
    --cc=penberg@cs.helsinki.fi \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=tytso@mit.edu \
    --cc=tzanussi@gmail.com \
    --cc=zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox