From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] speeding up the stat() family of system calls...
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:09:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52BD199A.8070607@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzPBdbfKovMT8Edr4SmE2_=+OKJFac9XW2awegogTkVTA@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/26/2013 11:00 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Interestingly, looking at the cp_new_stat() profiles, the games we
> play to get efficient range checking seem to actually hurt us. Maybe
> it's the "sbb" that is just expensive, or maybe it's turning a (very
> predictable) conditional branch into a data dependency chain instead.
> Or maybe it's just random noise in my profiles that happened to make
> those sbb's look bad.
>
Much to my surprise, this patch adds almost 10K of text to an
"allyesconfig" build. I wouldn't have expected it. I'll look at it
some more tomorrow.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-27 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-21 20:27 [RFC] speeding up the stat() family of system calls Linus Torvalds
2013-12-21 22:54 ` John Stoffel
2013-12-22 0:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-24 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-24 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-24 6:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-24 20:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-26 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-27 0:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-27 3:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-27 6:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-12-27 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-12 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-28 1:00 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Replace assembly access_ok() with a C variant tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2013-12-28 1:00 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Slightly tweak the access_ok() C variant for better code tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-28 1:06 ` tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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