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 ;-)
Andrew says:
And this. Not a bugfix, but trivial and obvious and apparently some
distros don't want to enable timer_stats because of the performance
issue, but powertop uses timer_stats.
Ingo replies:
seconded. I have tested this with and without CONFIG_TIMER_STATS, with
and without timer_stats collection activated.
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>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ingo Molnar
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