From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:25:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.13/fixes-for-merge-window-take2~41^2~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85f59edf9684603026c64c902791748116d29478;p=pandora-kernel.git perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() There's no point in re-doing the memory-barrier when we fail the cmpxchg(). Also placing it after the space reservation loop makes it clearer it only separates the userpage->tail read from the data stores. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michael Neuling Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Victor Kaplansky Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Anton Blanchard Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c19u6egfldyx86tpyc3zgkw9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed