timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls

When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
__timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.

So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
when timer stats are disabled.

In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
consumption by 1 - 1.5%.

This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:

 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732388 [+  125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732513 [+  125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732638 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732763 [+  125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732888 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177733013 [+   93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index ccf882eed8f8..be62ec2ebea5 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ extern unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now);
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
 
+extern int timer_stats_active;
+
 #define TIMER_STATS_FLAG_DEFERRABLE     0x1
 
 extern void init_timer_stats(void);
@@ -203,6 +205,8 @@ extern void __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(struct timer_list *timer,
 
 static inline void timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(struct timer_list *timer)
 {
+        if (likely(!timer_stats_active))
+                return;
         __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(timer, __builtin_return_address(0));
 }