On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:36:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Linus, what's your preference?
>
> So quite frankly, is there any reason we don't just implement
> native_read_msr() as just
>
> unsigned long long native_read_msr(unsigned int msr)
> {
> int err;
> unsigned long long val;
>
> val = native_read_msr_safe(msr, &err);
> WARN_ON_ONCE(err);
> return val;
> }
>
> Note: no inline, no nothing. Just put it in arch/x86/lib/msr.c, and be
> done with it. I don't see the downside.
>
> How many msr reads are <i>so</i> critical that the function call
> overhead would matter? Get rid of the inline version of the _safe()
> thing too, and put that thing there too.
There are a few in the perf code, and esp. on cores without a stack
engine the call overhead is noticeable. Also note that the perf MSRs are
generally optimized MSRs and less slow (we cannot say fast, they're
still MSRs) than regular MSRs.
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