From 507e123151149e578c9aae33eb876c49824da5f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:38:15 +0200 Subject: 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 --- kernel/timer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/timer.c') diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 54d3912..0b36b9e 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -380,6 +380,8 @@ static void timer_stats_account_timer(struct timer_list *timer) { unsigned int flag = 0; + if (likely(!timer->start_site)) + return; if (unlikely(tbase_get_deferrable(timer->base))) flag |= TIMER_STATS_FLAG_DEFERRABLE; -- cgit v1.1