Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcu: export rcu_note_context_switch() function

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 05:59:28AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:02:39PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:39:04AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:36:18AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:52:02PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hmmm....  This is interesting.  KVM being a module, we either expand
> > > > TINY_RCU's size a bit by making rcu_note_context_switch() be a real
> > > > function in rcutiny.c and adding an export, or we expand it by adding
> > > > two exports.
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to solve this without making TINY_RCU larger, and preferably
> > > > by making it smaller.  Any ideas come to mind?  (Other than making
> > > > KVM depend on CONFIG_SMP, which sounds too much like throwing out the
> > > > baby with the bathwater.)
> > > 
> > > Nothing quite like hitting "send" to make an idea show up...
> > > 
> > > In a UP kernel, does it actually help anything to have KVM
> > > tell RCU about executing in a guest?  If not, could we have a
> > > rcu_note_context_switch_kvm() that is a static inline empty function in
> > > TINY_RCU and maps to rcu_note_context_switch() for TREE_RCU?
> > > 
> > That will work, but does making rcu_note_context_switch() out of line
> > actually increase kernel size? The function is called in two places
> > currently, so by making it out of line we make two calling site smaller.
> > Will measure it next week.
> 
> One thing to keep in mind...  Calling an out-of-line function from
> KVM requires an export, each of which significantly increases TINY_RCU's
> memory footprint.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
How significantly? As I wrote in other mail I compiled two TINY_RCU
kernel with and without the patch and I didn't see memory footprint
increase at all. May be I measure it incorrectly, but what I see is that
with out of line function + export text section becomes 64 byte bigger, but
data section becomes 64 byte smaller:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4544134  590596 2023424 7158154  6d398a vmlinux     inline
4544198  590532 2023424 7158154  6d398a vmlinux.ol  out of line

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			Gleb.