kprobes performance on i386 vs x86_64

Satoshi Oshima soshima@redhat.com
Tue Jan 30 23:10:00 GMT 2007


Martin Hunt wrote:
> Is there a reason why i386 kprobes are 2-3 times faster than x86_64 on
> 2.6.19? This is on the same hardware. Is djprobes only working on i386
> or something?

True. Kprobes for i386 has booster but for x86_64 doesn't have booster.

Sorry that's my fault.

Today, I rebase k*probe-booster x86_64 patch set to latest mm.
and now under testing.

It will be posted as soon as it passes the tests.

Satoshi



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