From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Kautuk Consul <kconsul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
Fabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: book3s_hv_nested.c: improve branch prediction for k.alloc
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 20:46:32 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDAeuL2fz1aEW6rz@debian.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230407093147.3646597-1-kconsul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 05:31:47AM -0400, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> I used the unlikely() macro on the return values of the k.alloc
> calls and found that it changes the code generation a bit.
> Optimize all return paths of k.alloc calls by improving
> branch prediction on return value of k.alloc.
What about below?
"Improve branch prediction on kmalloc() and kzalloc() call by using
unlikely() macro to optimize their return paths."
That is, try to avoid first-person construct (I).
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-07 9:31 [PATCH] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: book3s_hv_nested.c: improve branch prediction for k.alloc Kautuk Consul
2023-04-07 13:46 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2023-04-07 16:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-04-11 4:59 ` Kautuk Consul
2023-04-11 6:35 ` Michael Ellerman
[not found] ` <CAKWYkK0hjMiP7yJWWjWX8CqS1Lcqi2z4P1bzj14-AU8SzBkYqw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-04-11 9:04 ` Kautuk Consul
2023-04-12 7:04 ` Kautuk Consul
2023-04-19 10:08 ` Kautuk Consul
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