From 90405aa02247c1a6313c33e2253f9fd2299ae60b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:13:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/lbr: Limit LBR accesses to TOS in callstack mode In callstack mode the LBR is not a ring buffer, but a stack that grows up and down. This means in this case we don't need to access all LBRs, only the ones up to TOS. Do this optimization for the normal LBR read, and the context switch save/restore code. For save/restore it can be done unconditionally, as it only runs when call stack mode is active. This recovers some of the cost of going to 32 LBRs on Skylake. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432786398-23861-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed