From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] SLUB: Noinline some functions to avoid them being folded into alloc/free
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:25:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071029232515.GR17536@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071028033258.779134394@sgi.com>
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:31:58PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Some function tend to get folded into __slab_free and __slab_alloc
> although they are rarely called. They cause register pressure that
> leads to bad code generation.
Nice - an example of uninlining to directly improve performance!
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-28 3:31 [patch 00/10] SLUB: SMP regression tests on Dual Xeon E5345 (8p) and new performance patches Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 3:31 ` [patch 01/10] SLUB: Consolidate add_partial and add_partial_tail to one function Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:07 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28 3:31 ` [patch 02/10] SLUB: Noinline some functions to avoid them being folded into alloc/free Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:08 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-29 23:25 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-10-28 3:31 ` [patch 03/10] SLUB: Move kmem_cache_node determination into add_full and add_partial Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:09 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 04/10] SLUB: Avoid checking for a valid object before zeroing on the fast path Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:10 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 05/10] SLUB: __slab_alloc() exit path consolidation Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:11 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 06/10] SLUB: Provide unique end marker for each slab Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 07/10] SLUB: Avoid referencing kmem_cache structure in __slab_alloc Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:12 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-30 18:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 08/10] SLUB: Optional fast path using cmpxchg_local Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 13:05 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-29 2:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-29 3:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-30 18:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-30 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-30 18:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-30 19:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31 1:52 ` [PATCH] local_t Documentation update 2 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31 2:28 ` [patch 08/10] SLUB: Optional fast path using cmpxchg_local Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 09/10] SLUB: Do our own locking via slab_lock and slab_unlock Christoph Lameter
2007-10-28 15:10 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-28 15:14 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-29 3:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-29 6:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-30 4:50 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-30 18:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-31 1:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-28 3:32 ` [patch 10/10] SLUB: Restructure slab alloc Christoph Lameter
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