From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] signals: reduce {setup,restore}_sigcontext sizes
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:36:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070123163646.GA21380@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cda58cb80701230826i3cba9164jf20678f9efd1a7ba@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:26:21PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> No, I haven't. Since the size code has been reduced by a factor 2, I
> would think that signal code can better fit in instruction cache
> lines. For example, the loop is made up by 11 instructions (I don't
> know why gcc makes it so big though) which fits into 3 cache lines in
> my cases. Where as the old code generated 246 instructions for the
> same job, which should cause many more cache misses.
>
> Do you have any pointers on benchmarks I could run ?
For stuff like this microbenchmarks like lmbench are best suited. Lmbench
recently moved to http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmbench.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-23 14:18 [PATCH 0/7] Clean up signal code Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/7] signals: reduce {setup,restore}_sigcontext sizes Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:38 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-01-23 16:26 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 16:36 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-01-24 12:25 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 2/7] signal: do not inline functions in signal-common.h Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/7] signal: clean up sigframe structure Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:35 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-01-23 15:00 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 17:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 4/7] signal32: remove code duplication Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 5/7] signal: test return value of install_sigtramp() Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 6/7] signal: factorize debug code Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:18 ` [PATCH 7/7] signal32: reduce {setup,restore}_sigcontext32 sizes Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:32 ` [PATCH 0/7] Clean up signal code Ralf Baechle
2007-01-23 14:54 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-23 14:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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