time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:08:26 +0000 (20:08 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:53:09 +0000 (09:53 +0100)
commit9344c92c2e72e495f695caef8364b3dd73af0eab
tree02123a47ac85b4bf35485972a72058b75121f269
parentb2add86edd3bc050af350515e6ba26f4622c38f3
time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()

It looks like all the call paths that lead to __acct_update_integrals()
already have irqs disabled, and __acct_update_integrals() does not need
to disable irqs itself.

This is very convenient since about half the CPU time left in this
function was spent in local_irq_save alone.

Performance of a microbenchmark that calls an invalid syscall
ten million times in a row on a nohz_full CPU improves 21% vs.
4.5-rc1 with both the removal of divisions from __acct_update_integrals()
and this patch, with runtime dropping from 3.7 to 2.9 seconds.

With these patches applied, the highest remaining cpu user in
the trace is native_sched_clock, which is addressed in the next
patch.

For testing purposes I stuck a WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) test
in __acct_update_integrals(). It did not trigger.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: clark@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455152907-18495-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/tsacct.c