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timer stats: speedups

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Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but
not used.  (this way distros can enable it more easily)

Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was
written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list
walk based lookup ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar
2007-06-01 00:47:16 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9fcc15ec3c
commit c1a834dc70
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@@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ config TIMER_STATS
reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace.
about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
(it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"