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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deinline sleep/delay functions
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:53:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050701075304.GA2041@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506300852.25943.vda@ilport.com.ua>

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:52:25AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Optimizing delay functions for speed is utterly pointless.
> 
> This patch turns ssleep(n), mdelay(n), udelay(n) and ndelay(n)
> into functions, thus they generate the smallest possible code
> at the callsite. Previously they were more or less inlined.

Optimizing mdelay() and udelay() for speed is pointless, but optimizing
ndelay() makes a lot of sense - if the setup time (call, etc) of the
delay is large, the delay time will be off by many percent. 

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-01  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-30  5:52 [PATCH] deinline sleep/delay functions Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-30  8:52 ` Russell King
2005-06-30  9:11   ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-30  9:19     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-30 10:21       ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-30 10:47         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-30 11:10           ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-30 11:21             ` Russell King
2005-06-30 11:22             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-30 11:44               ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-30 11:57                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-06-30 12:04                 ` Russell King
2005-06-30 12:20                   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-07-01  7:54           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-30  9:44     ` Russell King
2005-07-01  7:53 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]

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