Re: [RFC 4/4] cputime: remove scaling

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:36:35AM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > I really prefer robust kernel side accounting/instrumentation.
> 
> We have CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN.
> Perhaps we can change to use one of those options by default. I wonder
> if the additional performance cost related with them is really something
> that we should care about. Are there any measurement that show those
> will make performance worse ?

CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING also make use of scaling. And CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
involves too much overhead on IO-bound workloads. It's mostly good for
undisturbed userspace bound workloads (few IRQs, few exceptions, few syscalls).
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