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Commit 1cde2930 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers



Avoid touching the curr->preempt_notifier cacheline when not needed.

Provides a small improvement on pipe-bench:

  taskset 01 perf stat --repeat 10 -- perf bench sched pipe

before:

 Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched pipe' (10 runs):

      12385.016204      task-clock (msec)         #    1.001 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.34% )
         2,000,023      context-switches          #    0.161 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
               175      page-faults               #    0.014 K/sec                    ( +-  0.26% )
    41,376,162,250      cycles                    #    3.341 GHz                      ( +-  0.11% )
    17,389,139,321      stalled-cycles-frontend   #   42.03% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.25% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
    68,788,588,003      instructions              #    1.66  insns per cycle
                                                  #    0.25  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.02% )
    13,449,387,620      branches                  # 1085.940 M/sec                    ( +-  0.02% )
        20,880,690      branch-misses             #    0.16% of all branches          ( +-  0.98% )

      12.372646094 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.34% )

after:

 Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched pipe' (10 runs):

      12180.936528      task-clock (msec)         #    1.001 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.33% )
         2,000,077      context-switches          #    0.164 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
               174      page-faults               #    0.014 K/sec                    ( +-  0.27% )
    40,691,545,577      cycles                    #    3.341 GHz                      ( +-  0.06% )
    16,446,333,371      stalled-cycles-frontend   #   40.42% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.18% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
    68,570,100,387      instructions              #    1.69  insns per cycle
                                                  #    0.24  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.01% )
    13,389,740,014      branches                  # 1099.237 M/sec                    ( +-  0.01% )
        20,175,440      branch-misses             #    0.15% of all branches          ( +-  0.52% )

      12.169253010 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.33% )

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent d84525a8
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