Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:18:07 -0700 | | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | | Subject | Re: [profile] amortize atomic hit count increments |
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:10:23PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Well, that would speed it up, but the catastrophe was avoided in the > older patches by just processing all the hits for one cpu at a time, > and the buffering methods above for your suggested accounting > structures likely work well enough the overhead of processing unused > portions of the bitmap can be ignored. I don't really want to go about > addressing performance issues besides effective or actual > nontermination for this code, and would rather leave highly efficient > methods to oprofile (in fact, some others believe that even bugfixes > for such issues should be ignored for kernel/profile.c, contrary to my > notion that it shouldn't crash systems regardless of their size).
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