perf_counter: Allow for a wakeup watermark
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:01:10 +0000 (19:01 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:08:26 +0000 (22:08 +0200)
commit2667de81f3256c944b06abdf2c56c2f192fcb724
treed642156cfe0c52d2fb7ec1de4a2060018c8e3f8d
parent850bc73ffcc99cddfb52bc23217c60810c508853
perf_counter: Allow for a wakeup watermark

Currently we wake the mmap() consumer once every PAGE_SIZE of data
and/or once event wakeup_events when specified.

For high speed sampling this results in too many wakeups wrt. the
buffer size, hence change this.

We move the default wakeup limit to 1/4-th the buffer size, and
provide for means to manually specify this limit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/perf_counter.h
kernel/perf_counter.c