[PATCH] perf/core: Avoid context switch overheads
From: çç
Date: Fri Aug 04 2017 - 04:51:12 EST
From: "leilei.lin" <leilei.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
A performance issue caused by less strickly check in task
sched when these tasks were once attached by per-task perf_event.
A task will alloc task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn] when it was called
by perf_event_open, and task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn] would not
ever be freed to NULL.
__perf_event_task_sched_in()
if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]) // here is always true
perf_event_context_sched_in() // operate pmu
50% at most performance overhead was observed under some extreme
test case. Therefor, add a more strick check as to ctx->nr_events,
when ctx->nr_events == 0, it's no need to continue.
Signed-off-by: leilei.lin <leilei.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 426c2ff..f071013 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3179,6 +3179,9 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_in(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
if (cpuctx->task_ctx == ctx)
return;
+ if (!cpuctx->task_ctx && !ctx->nr_events)
+ return;
+
perf_ctx_lock(cpuctx, ctx);
perf_pmu_disable(ctx->pmu);
/*
--
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