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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: bcrl@kvack.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] network dev read_mostly
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:42:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F8F8DC.3010302@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070315.002516.59485075.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:28:35 +0100
> 
>> One problem with your patch is that all read_always() of pointers are going to 
>> use 3 bytes more of code, thus raising icache pressure.
>>
>> 48 b8 c3 08 e8 8c af    mov    $0x71af8ce808c3,%rax
>> 71 00 00
>>
>> instead of %rip relative addressing
>>
>> 48 8b 05 99 f3 09 00    mov    652185(%rip),%rax
> 
> Could we obtain %rip relative addressing with the ELF
> relocation approach I mentioned?

I dont think so, because 32 bits relative to %rip is not enough to cover all 
the addresses that a 64bits kernel can use :)

%rip relative addressing works only because all the x86_64 kernel (text+ 
static/bss data) are in the 0xffffffff80000000 - fffffffffff00000  2^31 quadrant

but vmalloc() range for example  is ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (45 bits)



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-15  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12 21:08 [patch 0/4] more stuff for 2.6.22 Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 1/4] network dev read_mostly Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:34   ` David Miller
2007-03-13  5:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 21:26     ` [RFC] Get rid of netdev_nit Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-21  0:02       ` David Miller
2007-03-15  2:18   ` [patch 1/4] network dev read_mostly Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-15  4:54     ` David Miller
2007-03-15  6:28     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15  7:25       ` David Miller
2007-03-15  7:42         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2007-03-15 13:17         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-16 17:03           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-15 15:10     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 2/4] net: make seq_operations const Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:34   ` David Miller
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 3/4] net: show bound packet types Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:35   ` David Miller
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 4/4] tcp: statistics not read_mostly Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:15   ` David Miller
2007-03-12 21:26     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:33       ` David Miller
2007-03-13 20:09       ` Andi Kleen

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