Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: fix high stack usage

Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-02T17:00:20Z

On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 05:23:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On 11/2/18, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> A patch that looks harmless causes the stack usage of the
> >> mlx5e_grp_sw_update_stats()
> >> function to drastically increase with x86 gcc-4.9 and higher (tested up to
> >> 8.1):
> >>
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_stats.c: In function
> >> ‘mlx5e_grp_sw_update_stats’:
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_stats.c:216:1: warning: the
> >> frame size of 1276 bytes is larger than 500 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> >
> > Why is the stack size so big here? The mlx5e_sw_stats is < 500 bytes
> > and all the other on-stack stuff looks pretty small?
>
> I am not entirely sure, but my analysis indicates that gcc tries loop unrolling
> or some other optimization that leads to two copies on the stack.

Wow how strange

Did you consier adding a
__attribute__((optimize("no-unroll-loops")))

type macro?

Jason