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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kmem_cache: include allocators code directly into slab_common
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:35:03 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5087FC97.6080100@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000013a932d456c-8f0cbbce-e3f7-4f2a-b051-7b093a8cfc7e-000000@email.amazonses.com>

On 10/24/2012 06:29 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> 
>> Because of that, we either have to move all the entry points to the
>> mm/slab.h and rely heavily on the pre-processor, or include all .c files
>> in here.
> 
> Hmm... That is a bit of a radical solution. The global optimizations now
> possible with the new gcc compiler include the ability to fold functions
> across different linkable objects. Andi, is that usable for kernel builds?
> 

In general, it takes quite a lot of time to take all those optimizations
for granted. We still live a lot of time with multiple compiler versions
building distros, etc, for quite some time.

I would expect the end result for anyone not using such a compiler to be
a sudden performance drop when using a new kernel. Not really pleasant.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 13:59 [PATCH v2 0/2] common entry point for kmem_cache_free Glauber Costa
2012-10-24 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] kmem_cache: include allocators code directly into slab_common Glauber Costa
2012-10-24 14:29   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-24 14:35     ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-10-24 17:29       ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-24 15:33     ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-24 18:02   ` Pekka Enberg
2012-10-24 19:34     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-26 14:15       ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-30 15:31         ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-30 15:35           ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-30 20:27           ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-24 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] slab: move kmem_cache_free to common code Glauber Costa

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