Re: [patch 00/17] CFS Bandwidth Control v7.1

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 08 2011 - 06:32:56 EST


On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 00:39 -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
>
> > Going beyond that
> > would be using static_branch() to track if there is any bandwidth
> > tracking required at all.
> >
>
> I spent some time examining this option as well. Our toolchain
> apparently is stuck on gcc-4.4 which left me scratching my head at the
> supposed jump label assembly being omitted until I realized
> CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO was missing. I will roll this up also and benchmark
> tomorrow.

Ah, does it actually make things worse if it uses the static_branch
fallbacks? If so we should probably use some HAVE_JUMP_LABEL foo.
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