Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 03:07:12 EST


On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > But it does hurt, in the sense that the complicated format of DWARF CFI
> > means the unwinder has to jump through a lot more hoops to read it.
>
> Why that matters, actually? Unwinder is nothing to be performance
> oriented. And if somebody is doing a lot of unwinding during runtime,
> they can switch to in-this-case-faster FP unwinder.

perf (and ftrace) like the unwinder to be considered performance
oriented.