perf/core: Reduce context switch overhead
Skip most of the PMU context switching overhead when ctx->nr_events is 0. 50% performance overhead was observed under an extreme testcase. Signed-off-by: leilei.lin <leilei.lin@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: eranian@gmail.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: linxiulei@gmail.com Cc: yang_oliver@hotmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809002921.69813-1-leilei.lin@alibaba-inc.com [ Rewrote the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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