Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] jump label: make enable/disable o(1)

[Jason Baron]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:33:51PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:23 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > 
> > For the jump label disabled case, perf is using atomic_inc/dec and atomic_read
> > to check if enabled. While other consumers (tracepoints) are just using an
> > 'int'. I didn't want hurt the jump label disabled case for tracepoints.
> > If we can agree to use atomic ops for tracepoints, or drop atomics from
> > perf, that would simplify things. 
> 
> I had a quick look at the tracepoint stuff but got lost, but surely it
> has a reference count somewhere as well, it needs to know when the last
> probe goes away.. or does it check if the list is empty?
> 
> Anyway, tracepoint enable/disable isn't a real fast-path, surely it
> could suffer an atomic op?

It is the atomic_read() at the tracepoint site that I am concerned
about.

thanks,

-Jason
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