From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: add "cold" attribute to setup/teardown fns
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:45:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2430733.IxTGXH4ElX@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435938006-22254-2-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Hi Bruce,
2015-07-03 16:40, Bruce Richardson:
> As well as the fast-path functions in the rxtx code, there are also
> functions which set up and tear down the descriptor rings. Since these
> are not performance critical functions, there is no need to have them
> extensively optimized, so we add __attribute__((cold)) to their
> definitions. This has the side-effect of making debugging them easier as
> the compiler does not optimize them as heavily, so more variables are
> accessible by default in gdb.
What is the benefit, compared to -O0?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-03 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-03 15:40 [PATCH 0/2] Fix crash with vpmd and mbuf debug Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: add "cold" attribute to setup/teardown fns Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 15:45 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-07-03 15:56 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 19:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-06 9:20 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-06 9:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-03 23:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-07-03 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: check mbuf refcnt when clearing RX/TX ring Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 15:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-03 16:04 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 19:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-20 9:36 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-07-20 9:47 ` Richardson, Bruce
2015-07-06 15:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix crash with vpmd and mbuf debug Thomas Monjalon
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