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    tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording · e870e9a1
    Li Zefan authored
    
    
    We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
    triggered can add big overhead to context switch.
    
    (lmbench context switch test)
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     2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
     ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
    ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
      2.19   2.3   2.21   2.56   2.13     2.54    2.07
      2.39   2.51  2.35   2.75   2.27     2.81    2.24
    
    The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.
    
    It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
    sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.
    
    We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
    to allow to disable cmdline recording.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
    LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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