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tracing: optimization of branch tracer
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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>
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Witold Baryluk authored and Steven Rostedt committed Mar 18, 2009
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6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions include/linux/compiler.h
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Expand Up @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct ftrace_branch_data {
unsigned long miss;
unsigned long hit;
};
unsigned long miss_hit[2];
};
};

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.line = __LINE__, \
}; \
______r = !!(cond); \
if (______r) \
______f.hit++; \
else \
______f.miss++; \
______f.miss_hit[______r]++; \
______r; \
}))
#endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */
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