From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tgraf@suug.ch
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop unrolling in net/sched/sch_generic.c
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:22:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050705.142210.14973612.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050705173411.GK16076@postel.suug.ch>
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:34:11 +0200
> Do as you wish, I don't feel like argueing about micro optimizations.
I bet the performance gain really comes from the mispredicted
branches in the loop.
For loops of fixed duration, say, 5 or 6 iterations or less, it
totally defeats the branch prediction logic in most processors.
By the time the chip moves the I-cache branch state to "likely"
the loop has ended and we eat a mispredict.
I think the original patch is OK, hand unrolling the loop in
the C code. Adding -funroll-loops to the CFLAGS has lots of
implications, and in particular the embedded folks might not
be happy with some things that result from that.
So I'll apply the original unrolling patch for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-05 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 21:15 [TG3]: Add hw coalescing infrastructure David S. Miller
2005-05-11 21:17 ` Michael Chan
2005-05-12 2:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-12 7:53 ` Robert Olsson
2005-06-22 15:25 ` [TG3]: About " Eric Dumazet
2005-06-22 19:03 ` Michael Chan
2005-07-04 21:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-04 21:26 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-04 21:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-04 21:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-04 22:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-04 22:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-04 22:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-04 22:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-04 23:01 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-05 7:38 ` [PATCH] loop unrolling in net/sched/sch_generic.c Eric Dumazet
2005-07-05 11:51 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-05 12:03 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-05 13:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-05 13:48 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-05 15:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-05 17:34 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-05 21:22 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-07-05 21:33 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-05 21:35 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-05 23:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-05 23:41 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-05 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-05 23:55 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-06 0:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-06 0:51 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-06 1:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-06 1:07 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-06 0:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-06 1:02 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-06 1:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-06 12:42 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-07 21:17 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-07 21:34 ` Thomas Graf
2005-07-07 22:24 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <42CE22CE.7030902@cosmosbay.com>
2005-07-08 7:30 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-08 8:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-08 11:08 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2005-07-12 4:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-05 21:26 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-28 15:52 ` [PATCH] Add prefetches in net/ipv4/route.c Eric Dumazet
2005-07-28 19:39 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-28 20:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-28 20:58 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-28 21:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-28 22:44 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-29 14:50 ` Robert Olsson
2005-07-29 17:06 ` Rick Jones
2005-07-29 17:44 ` Robert Olsson
2005-07-29 17:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-29 18:25 ` Rick Jones
2005-07-31 3:52 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <42EDDA50.4010405@cosmosbay.com>
2005-08-01 15:39 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-31 3:51 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-31 3:44 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-04 23:00 ` [TG3]: About hw coalescing infrastructure David S. Miller
2005-07-05 16:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-04 22:47 ` Eric Dumazet
[not found] <C925F8B43D79CC49ACD0601FB68FF50C045E0FB0@orsmsx408>
2005-07-07 22:30 ` [PATCH] loop unrolling in net/sched/sch_generic.c David S. Miller
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