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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-01 08:18:30 -0700 |
| commit | c1a834dc704763673df10282995257f2de93cbe9 (patch) | |
| tree | 66a0bc5ffbf6732eaa5fc6f554c13b235005c4cd /Documentation | |
| parent | 9fcc15ec3c1c287a781a4620e52522b6186f26f6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c1a834dc704763673df10282995257f2de93cbe9.tar.gz lwn-c1a834dc704763673df10282995257f2de93cbe9.zip | |
timer stats: speedups
Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but
not used. (this way distros can enable it more easily)
Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was
written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list
walk based lookup ;-)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt index 27f782e3593f..22b0814d0ad0 100644 --- a/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/hrtimer/timer_stats.txt @@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ timer_stats - timer usage statistics ------------------------------------ timer_stats is a debugging facility to make the timer (ab)usage in a Linux -system visible to kernel and userspace developers. It is not intended for -production usage as it adds significant overhead to the (hr)timer code and the -(hr)timer data structures. +system visible to kernel and userspace developers. If enabled in the config +but not used it has almost zero runtime overhead, and a relatively small +data structure overhead. Even if collection is enabled runtime all the +locking is per-CPU and lookup is hashed. timer_stats should be used by kernel and userspace developers to verify that their code does not make unduly use of timers. This helps to avoid unnecessary |