Re: [PATCH] lockdep: do not count lock class operations without CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:06:01AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Currently this counter shown in /proc/lockdep if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
> This patch disables it completely if this option is disabled.
> 
> This counter might be useful for debugging lockdep itself, but for normal
> debugging it seems useless. Lockstat provides more detailed statistics.
> 
> This atomic_inc is a hot spot inside __lock_acquire() for debug kernel.
> 
> With patch "netperf -H localhost" shows some boost: 2500 -> 2600

Nothing against these patches, but I do wonder why you're performance
optimizing debug kernels ;-)