From: Heiko Carstens Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:38:15 +0000 (+0200) Subject: timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc2~77^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=507e123151149e578c9aae33eb876c49824da5f8;p=pandora-kernel.git timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some fields in the corresponding struct timer_list. So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info when timer stats are disabled. In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu consumption by 1 - 1.5%. This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11: perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732388 [+ 125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732513 [+ 125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732638 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732763 [+ 125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732888 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177733013 [+ 93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic Cc: Arjan van de Ven LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed