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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 16:45:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050705.164503.104035718.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050705234104.GR16076@postel.suug.ch>

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:41:04 +0200

> I still think we can fix this performance issue without manually
> unrolling the loop or we should at least try to. In the end gcc
> should notice the constant part of the loop and move it out so
> basically the only difference should the additional prio++ and
> possibly a failing branch prediction.

But the branch prediction is where I personally think a lot
of the lossage is coming from.  These can cost upwards of 20
or 30 processor cycles, easily.  That's getting close to the
cost of a L2 cache miss.

I see the difficulties with this change now, why don't we revisit
this some time in the future?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-05 23:45 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
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 [this message]
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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