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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: cmm@us.ibm.com, tytso@mit.edu, sandeen@redhat.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V3 01/11] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on 32 bit architecture
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:06:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827210652.dcbe5ff4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828034816.GA6440@skywalker>

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:18:16 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > This is now too large to be inlined.
> > 
> 
> 
> How do we actually figure that out ? I have been making that mistakes
> quiet often.

Well.  Experience and guesswork, mainly.

But a useful metric is to look and the /bin/size output before and
after the inlining.  In this case fs/ext3/ialloc.o's text shrunk 40-odd
bytes, which we think is a net benefit due to reduced CPU cache
pressure.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-27 15:28 [PATCH -V3 01/11] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on 32 bit architecture Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-27 19:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-27 21:01   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-27 21:22     ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-28  3:52       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-28  4:09         ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-28 22:59           ` Mingming Cao
2008-08-28  7:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-28  3:48   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-28  4:06     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-08-28 14:19       ` Nick Piggin

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