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tracing: optimization of branch tracer

Impact: better performance for if branch tracer

Use an array to count the hit and misses of a conditional instead
of using another conditional. This cuts down on saturation of branch
predictions and increases performance of modern pipelined architectures.

Signed-off-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Witold Baryluk 16 年之前
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共有 1 個文件被更改,包括 2 次插入4 次删除
  1. 2 4
      include/linux/compiler.h

+ 2 - 4
include/linux/compiler.h

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct ftrace_branch_data {
 			unsigned long miss;
 			unsigned long hit;
 		};
+		unsigned long miss_hit[2];
 	};
 };
 
@@ -125,10 +126,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
 				.line = __LINE__,			\
 			};						\
 		______r = !!(cond);					\
-		if (______r)						\
-			______f.hit++;					\
-		else							\
-			______f.miss++;					\
+		______f.miss_hit[______r]++;					\
 		______r;						\
 	}))
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */