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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:47:19 +0100
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Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	jim owens <jowens@hp.com>,
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Peter Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>,
	Sven Dietrich <SDietrich@novell.com>, jh@suse.cz
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Also cc Honza in case he has comments (you might want
> > to review more of the thread in the archives) 
> 
> I think this particular bug is already known and discussed:

I thought so initially too, but:

> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-12/msg00365.html
> 
> and it hints at being fixed with gcc 4.4.  Does anyone want to test
> that?

Hugh already tested with 4.4 and it didn't work well. At least
a lot of the low level asm inlines were not inlined.
So it looks like it's still mistuned for the kernel.

-Andi

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