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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
To: Thiago Galesi <thiagogalesi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pahole and other DWARF2 utilities
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:28:57 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031172856.GE5319@mandriva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82ecf08e0610310805x6a77c2d3pd46eb2f76f75af67@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:05:06PM -0200, Thiago Galesi wrote:
> >>       Further ideas on how to use the DWARF2 information include tools
> >> that will show where inlines are being used, how much code is added by
> >> inline functions,
> >
> >It would be quite useful to be able to identify inlined functions which are
> >good candidates for uninlining.
> >
> >-
> 
> Arnaldo, can't we get a call count for functions? (yes, it is not a
> run-time call count, but rather, how many times the function if called
> in the code) I guess this would help for this purpose of finding
> candidates for inlining, uninlining.

At least for inline expansions, yes, for normal function calls I have to
study more the DWARF2 documentation, but I guess its feasible.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30 21:33 [ANNOUNCE] pahole and other DWARF2 utilities Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-10-31  4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-31 16:05   ` Thiago Galesi
2006-10-31 17:28     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2006-10-31 17:22   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-10-31 20:45     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-11-03 15:51   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-11-03 19:07   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-11-04 21:03     ` Top 100 inline functions (make allyesconfig) was " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-11-05  6:30       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-05 16:42         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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