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    [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Set DEBUG_MUTEX to off by default · cca57c5b
    Tim Chen authored
    DEBUG_MUTEX flag is on by default in current kernel configuration.
    
    During performance testing, we saw mutex debug functions like
    mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed (called by kfree()) is expensive as it
    goes through a global list of memory areas with mutex lock and do the
    checking.  For benchmarks such as Volanomark and Hackbench, we have seen
    more than 40% drop in performance on some platforms.  We suggest to set
    DEBUG_MUTEX off by default.  Or at least do that later when we feel that
    the mutex changes in the current code have stabilized.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
    cca57c5b
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