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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86,64: Simplify save_regs()
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 22:42:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110706204201.GA19985@somewhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E14A781.8090004@zytor.com>

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:20:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 10:34 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> I really did not think about code duplication, considering
> >> it's better to optimize the irq entry path.
> >>
> >> What do you guys think? We can still revert the whole patchset.
> > 
> > FWIW I think it should be a macro, like it was in the original code.
> > 
> > Optimizing entry*.S for code size doesn't make a lot of sense.
> > 
> 
> Code size, no.
> 
> *Path* size and cache/prefetch friendliness is another matter.
> The subroutine is bad on that account, too, so yes, this really seems
> like a losing proposition.
> 
> I'm not too fond of the gajillion obtuse macros we have, but subroutines
> doesn't make it really any better.

Fine, so I guess we can keep that macro conversion.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-02 16:29 [RFC GIT PULL] x86 entry / perf stacktrace changes Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-02 16:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86: Save stack pointer in perf live regs savings Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-02 16:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86: Fetch stack from regs when possible in dump_trace() Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-02 16:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86,64: Simplify save_regs() Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-04  7:20   ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-04 12:57     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-06 17:34       ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-06 18:20         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-06 20:42           ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2011-07-04 12:59     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-02 16:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86,64: Separate arg1 from rbp handling in SAVE_REGS_IRQ Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-04  7:34   ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-02 16:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86: Remove useless unwinder backlink from irq regs saving Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-04  7:29   ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-04  9:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-04 13:10       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-04 13:22     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-05 22:21       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-07-02 16:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86: Don't use frame pointer to save old stack on irq entry Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-04  9:13 ` [RFC GIT PULL] x86 entry / perf stacktrace changes Ingo Molnar

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