sched: Use jump labels to reduce overhead when bandwidth control is inactive

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Now that the linkage of jump-labels has been fixed they show a measurable
improvement in overhead for the enabled-but-unused case.

Workload is:

 'taskset -c 0 perf stat --repeat 50 -e instructions,cycles,branches
  bash -c "for ((i=0;i<5;i++)); do $(dirname $0)/pipe-test 20000; done"'

There's a speedup for all situations:

                 instructions            cycles                  branches
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Intel Westmere
 base            806611770               745895590               146765378
 +jumplabel      803090165 (-0.44%)      713381840 (-4.36%)      144561130

 AMD Barcelona
 base            824657415               740055589               148855354
 +jumplabel      821056910 (-0.44%)      737558389 (-0.34%)      146635229

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111108042736.560831357@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Paul Turner 2011-11-07 20:26:33 -08:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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