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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070419170650.GI10338@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704191354.52985.ak@suse.de>

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:54:52PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I'm thinking about dropping the x86-64 CONFIG_REORDER for 2.6.22. 
> The function enabled -ffunction-sections and then tries to reorder
> the executable
> 
> While that's in theory a worthy goal to save TLB/icache, in practice it 
> didn't really work out.
> 
> Rationale:
>...
> So I'm planning to drop the option and arch/x86_64/kernel/functionlist
> 
> Comments?

Have there been any benchmarks showing performance improvements 
with -ffunction-sections?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-19 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-19 11:54 Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 Andi Kleen
2007-04-19 14:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-04-19 16:59   ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-20  8:35   ` Måns Rullgård
2007-04-20  9:37     ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2007-04-20 17:24       ` Måns Rullgård
2007-04-19 17:06 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-04-19 20:10 ` David Miller
2007-04-20  1:21   ` Herbert Xu

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