Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Local APIC timer interrupt happens HZ times per second on each CPU.
>
> Optimize it for the case where profile multiplier equals one and does
> not change (99+% of cases); this saves about 20 CPU cycles on Pentium II.
>
> Also update the old multiplier immediately after noticing it changed,
> while values are register-hot, saving eight bytes of stack depth.
The code which you're patching is cheerfully nuked by a patch in Andi's
tree:
ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt-current/patches/no-subjiffy-profile
I don't immediately understand that patch and I don't recall seeing it
discussed - maybe I was asleep.
It removes the profile multiplier (readprofile -M). I've used that
occasionally, but can't say that I noticed much benefit from it.
What's the thinking here?
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