Re: [PATCH 2/2] slab: move kmem_cache_free to common code

[Glauber Costa]

On 10/22/2012 06:45 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> 
>> + * kmem_cache_free - Deallocate an object
>> + * @cachep: The cache the allocation was from.
>> + * @objp: The previously allocated object.
>> + *
>> + * Free an object which was previously allocated from this
>> + * cache.
>> + */
>> +void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
>> +{
>> +	__kmem_cache_free(s, x);
>> +	trace_kmem_cache_free(_RET_IP_, x);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
>> +
> 
> This results in an additional indirection if tracing is off. Wonder if
> there is a performance impact?
> 
if tracing is on, you mean?

Tracing already incurs overhead, not sure how much a function call would
add to the tracing overhead.

I would not be concerned with this, but I can measure, if you have any
specific workload in mind.

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