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From: cbouatmailru@gmail.com (Anton Vorontsov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] ARM: Get rid of .LCcralign local label usage in alignment_trap macro
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:53:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120801205306.GB20714@lizard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120730141544.GJ6802@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:15:44PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:58:20AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > This makes the code more izolated.
> > 
> > The downside of this is that we now have an additional branch and the
> > code itself is 8 bytes longer. But on the bright side, this new layout
> > can be more cache friendly since cr_alignment address might be already
> > in the cache line (not that I measured anything, it's just fun to think
> > about it).
> 
> The caches are harvard, so mixing data and code together does not increase
> performance.  Having data which is used by the same code in the same cache
> line results in better performance.
> 
> The additional branch will also cause a pipeline stall on older CPUs.
> 
> So no, I don't see any way that this is a performance improvement.  Please
> leave this as is.

Sure, will drop it.

Thanks!

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru at gmail.com

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 11:57 [PATCH v3 0/11] KGDB/KDB FIQ (NMI) debugger Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 01/11] kernel/debug: Make use of KGDB_REASON_NMI Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-31  3:53   ` Jason Wessel
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 02/11] kernel/debug: Mask KGDB NMI upon entry Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 03/11] kdb: Implement disable_nmi command Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 17:33   ` Colin Cross
2012-08-01 21:02     ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 04/11] tty/serial/kgdboc: Add and wire up clear_irqs callback Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 05/11] tty/serial/amba-pl011: Implement " Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 06/11] ARM: Move some macros from entry-armv to entry-header Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] ARM: Add KGDB/KDB FIQ debugger generic code Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 14:07   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-01 20:52     ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 08/11] ARM: kgdb_fiq: Implement knocking into KDB via escape command Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 09/11] ARM: VIC: Add a couple of low-level FIQ management helpers Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 10/11] ARM: versatile: Make able to use UART ports for KGDB FIQ debugger Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 14:16   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-07-30 11:58 ` [PATCH 11/11] ARM: Get rid of .LCcralign local label usage in alignment_trap macro Anton Vorontsov
2012-07-30 14:15   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-01 20:53     ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]

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