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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large inlines in include/linux/skbuff.h
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:36:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040422113645.19208a70.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404221756.46240.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:56:46 +0300
Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> wrote:

> On Thursday 22 April 2004 03:47, James Morris wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > What shall be done with this? I'll make patch to move locking functions
> > > into net/core/skbuff.c unless there is some reason not to do it.
> >
> > How will these changes impact performance?  I asked this last time you
> > posted about inlines and didn't see any response.
> 
> Hard to say. We will lose ~2% to extra call/return instructions
> but will gain 40kb of icache space.

He's asking you to test and quantify the performance changes that
occur as a result of this patch, not to figure it out via calculations
in your head :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-21 19:26 Large inlines in include/linux/skbuff.h Denis Vlasenko
2004-04-22  0:47 ` James Morris
     [not found]   ` <200404221756.46240.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-04-22 18:36     ` David S. Miller [this message]
     [not found]       ` <200404222239.34760.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-04-22 22:10         ` David S. Miller
2004-04-27 21:21   ` [PATCH] eliminate large inline's in skbuff Stephen Hemminger
2004-04-27 23:30     ` David S. Miller
     [not found]     ` <200405020037.47712.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-05-05 21:59       ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-05-06 17:13         ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found] <1NvJL-1QO-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1NAJr-61F-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-22 14:59   ` Large inlines in include/linux/skbuff.h Andi Kleen
2004-04-22 15:15     ` James Morris
2004-04-22 15:37       ` Eric Dumazet
     [not found]         ` <200404221927.34717.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-04-22 19:24           ` Eric Dumazet
2004-04-22 22:23       ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-22 22:25         ` David S. Miller
2004-04-22 22:34           ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-22 22:35             ` David S. Miller
     [not found]   ` <1NRqX-2GI-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1NRqX-2GI-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-22 19:51       ` Andi Kleen

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