[PATCH bpf-next v2 0/4] Add ftrace direct call for arm64

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Oct 6 09:29:22 PDT 2022


On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 18:19:12 +0200
Florent Revest <revest at chromium.org> wrote:

> Sure, we can give this a try, I'll work on a macro that generates the
> 7 callbacks and we can check how much that helps. My belief right now
> is that ftrace's iteration over all ops on arm64 is where we lose most
> time but now that we have numbers it's pretty easy to check hypothesis
> :)

Ah, I forgot that's what Mark's code is doing. But yes, that needs to be
fixed first. I forget that arm64 doesn't have the dedicated trampolines yet.

So, let's hold off until that is complete.

-- Steve



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