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From: Emmanuel Fleury <emmanuel.fleury@labri.fr>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: use C code for current_thread_info()
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:05:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <448C85B7.1010902@labri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606111647_MC3-1-C228-993B@compuserve.com>

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> I just tried gcc 3.3.3 and the kernel gets a little bigger but it boots
> and runs OK. That's the oldest compiler I can find.
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 3593627  559864  342728 4496219  449b5b 2.6.17-rc6-32-post/vmlinux
> 3591371  559864  342728 4493963  44928b 2.6.17-rc6-32/vmlinux
>   +2256
> 
> Looking at the generated code, it seems the compiler just makes dumb
> choices and tends to recompute current_thread_info() in unlikely code
> paths even when there is no register pressure.  4.0.2 makes better
> choices.

What size with gcc 4.1.2 ? (just curiosity)

Regards
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-11 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-11 20:43 [patch] i386: use C code for current_thread_info() Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-11 21:05 ` Emmanuel Fleury [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-13  5:26 Albert Cahalan
2006-06-13  1:50 Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-13  6:43 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-13  9:27   ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-12 17:14 Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-12 17:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-06-12 18:48 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-11 19:07 Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-11 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-11 19:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-11 20:33   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-11 20:44   ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-06-12  8:10     ` Andi Kleen

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