linux/arch/x86
Vince Weaver c48b60538c perf/x86: Use rdpmc() rather than rdmsr() when possible in the kernel
The rdpmc instruction is faster than the equivelant rdmsr call,
so use it when possible in the kernel.

The perfctr kernel patches did this, after extensive testing showed
rdpmc to always be faster (One can look in etc/costs in the perfctr-2.6
package to see a historical list of the overhead).

I have done some tests on a 3.2 kernel, the kernel module I used
was included in the first posting of this patch:

                   rdmsr           rdpmc
 Core2 T9900:      203.9 cycles     30.9 cycles
 AMD fam0fh:        56.2 cycles      9.8 cycles
 Atom 6/28/2:      129.7 cycles     50.6 cycles

The speedup of using rdpmc is large.

[ It's probably possible (and desirable) to do this without
  requiring a new field in the hw_perf_event structure, but
  the fixed events make this tricky. ]

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1203011724030.26934@cl320.eecs.utk.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 17:23:35 +02:00
..
boot x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support 2012-06-01 09:11:26 -07:00
configs x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs 2012-03-24 08:18:03 +01:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - move more common code to ablk_init_common 2012-05-15 17:25:33 +10:00
ia32 most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set 2012-06-01 12:58:51 -04:00
include/asm x86: Add rdpmcl() 2012-06-06 17:23:27 +02:00
kernel perf/x86: Use rdpmc() rather than rdmsr() when possible in the kernel 2012-06-06 17:23:35 +02:00
kvm KVM: MMU: fix huge page adapted on non-PAE host 2012-05-28 17:41:15 +03:00
lguest lguest: Make sure interrupt is allocated ok by lguest_setup_irq 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
lib perf/x86: Check user address explicitly in copy_from_user_nmi() 2012-06-06 17:08:04 +02:00
math-emu x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct 2012-03-13 06:24:09 +01:00
mm Merge branch 'x86/trampoline' into x86/urgent 2012-05-30 12:11:32 -07:00
net bpf jit: Let the x86 jit handle negative offsets 2012-04-03 18:01:41 -04:00
oprofile x86: Factor out TIF_IA32 from 32-bit address space 2012-02-20 12:48:46 -08:00
pci Features: 2012-05-24 16:02:08 -07:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-23 11:16:40 -07:00
power x86, kvm: Call restore_sched_clock_state() only after %gs is initialized 2012-04-02 13:53:00 +02:00
realmode x86, realmode: Move end signature into header.S 2012-05-21 00:02:45 -07:00
syscalls syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
tools x86/decoder: Fix bsr/bsf/jmpe decoding with operand-size prefix 2012-06-06 08:54:18 +02:00
um most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set 2012-06-01 12:58:51 -04:00
vdso Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
video x86: Use vga_default_device() when determining whether an fb is primary 2012-04-24 09:50:17 +01:00
xen x86, amd, xen: Avoid NULL pointer paravirt references 2012-05-30 16:15:02 -07:00
.gitignore x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore 2012-01-16 08:21:59 +01:00
Kbuild x86, realmode: realmode.bin infrastructure 2012-05-08 11:41:48 -07:00
Kconfig x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation 2012-06-01 09:11:41 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Tighten dependencies of CPU_SUP_*_32 2012-03-08 10:57:34 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Makefile md updates for 3.5 2012-05-23 17:08:40 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um um: fix linker script generation 2012-04-09 13:59:00 -04:00