perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
Gleb writes:
> Currently pmu is disabled and re-enabled on each timer interrupt even
> when no rotation or frequency adjustment is needed. On Intel CPU this
> results in two writes into PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR per tick. On bare metal
> it does not cause significant slowdown, but when running perf in a virtual
> machine it leads to 20% slowdown on my machine.
Cure this by keeping a perf_event_context::nr_freq counter that counts the
number of active events that require frequency adjustments and use this in a
similar fashion to the already existing nr_events != nr_active test in
perf_rotate_context().
By being able to exclude both rotation and frequency adjustments a-priory for
the common case we can avoid the otherwise superfluous PMU disable.
Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-515yhoatehd3gza7we9fapaa@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index a355ffb..b3fed52 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1130,6 +1130,8 @@
if (!is_software_event(event))
cpuctx->active_oncpu--;
ctx->nr_active--;
+ if (event->attr.freq && event->attr.sample_freq)
+ ctx->nr_freq--;
if (event->attr.exclusive || !cpuctx->active_oncpu)
cpuctx->exclusive = 0;
}
@@ -1407,6 +1409,8 @@
if (!is_software_event(event))
cpuctx->active_oncpu++;
ctx->nr_active++;
+ if (event->attr.freq && event->attr.sample_freq)
+ ctx->nr_freq++;
if (event->attr.exclusive)
cpuctx->exclusive = 1;
@@ -2329,6 +2333,9 @@
u64 interrupts, now;
s64 delta;
+ if (!ctx->nr_freq)
+ return;
+
list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) {
if (event->state != PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE)
continue;
@@ -2384,12 +2391,14 @@
{
u64 interval = (u64)cpuctx->jiffies_interval * TICK_NSEC;
struct perf_event_context *ctx = NULL;
- int rotate = 0, remove = 1;
+ int rotate = 0, remove = 1, freq = 0;
if (cpuctx->ctx.nr_events) {
remove = 0;
if (cpuctx->ctx.nr_events != cpuctx->ctx.nr_active)
rotate = 1;
+ if (cpuctx->ctx.nr_freq)
+ freq = 1;
}
ctx = cpuctx->task_ctx;
@@ -2397,33 +2406,40 @@
remove = 0;
if (ctx->nr_events != ctx->nr_active)
rotate = 1;
+ if (ctx->nr_freq)
+ freq = 1;
}
+ if (!rotate && !freq)
+ goto done;
+
perf_ctx_lock(cpuctx, cpuctx->task_ctx);
perf_pmu_disable(cpuctx->ctx.pmu);
- perf_ctx_adjust_freq(&cpuctx->ctx, interval);
- if (ctx)
- perf_ctx_adjust_freq(ctx, interval);
- if (!rotate)
- goto done;
+ if (freq) {
+ perf_ctx_adjust_freq(&cpuctx->ctx, interval);
+ if (ctx)
+ perf_ctx_adjust_freq(ctx, interval);
+ }
- cpu_ctx_sched_out(cpuctx, EVENT_FLEXIBLE);
- if (ctx)
- ctx_sched_out(ctx, cpuctx, EVENT_FLEXIBLE);
+ if (rotate) {
+ cpu_ctx_sched_out(cpuctx, EVENT_FLEXIBLE);
+ if (ctx)
+ ctx_sched_out(ctx, cpuctx, EVENT_FLEXIBLE);
- rotate_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx);
- if (ctx)
- rotate_ctx(ctx);
+ rotate_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx);
+ if (ctx)
+ rotate_ctx(ctx);
- perf_event_sched_in(cpuctx, ctx, current);
+ perf_event_sched_in(cpuctx, ctx, current);
+ }
+
+ perf_pmu_enable(cpuctx->ctx.pmu);
+ perf_ctx_unlock(cpuctx, cpuctx->task_ctx);
done:
if (remove)
list_del_init(&cpuctx->rotation_list);
-
- perf_pmu_enable(cpuctx->ctx.pmu);
- perf_ctx_unlock(cpuctx, cpuctx->task_ctx);
}
void perf_event_task_tick(void)