From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
To: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] radeon: Deinline indirect register accessor functions
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 20:50:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <555A3461.90000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555A2A1E.9000706@amd.com>
On 05/18/2015 08:06 PM, Christian König wrote:
> I'm actually surprised how often people come along with that. The last time we tried this it caused a noticeable performance drop.
>
> Basic problem is that this line:
>> + if ((reg < rdev->rmmio_size || reg < RADEON_MIN_MMIO_SIZE) && !always_indirect)
> optimizes away in most of the cases which reduces the call to a readl which is way faster than the spinlock path.
>
> So this is a NAK,
Fair enough.
I'm preparing a v2 where the fast branch of r100_mm_{r,w}reg() will stay inlined.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-18 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 17:59 [PATCH] radeon: Deinline indirect register accessor functions Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-18 17:59 ` [PATCH] radeon: Shrink radeon_ring_write() Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-18 18:11 ` Christian König
2015-05-18 18:25 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-18 19:01 ` Christian König
2015-05-18 18:06 ` [PATCH] radeon: Deinline indirect register accessor functions Christian König
2015-05-18 18:50 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2015-05-18 19:04 ` Christian König
2015-05-18 19:22 ` Ilia Mirkin
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