From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: re-inline sched functions
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:30:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050310163056.64878c24.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503110024.j2B0OFg06087@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> This could be part of the unknown 2% performance regression with
> db transaction processing benchmark.
>
> The four functions in the following patch use to be inline. They
> are un-inlined since 2.6.7.
>
> We measured that by re-inline them back on 2.6.9, it improves performance
> for db transaction processing benchmark, +0.2% (on real hardware :-)
>
> The cost is certainly larger kernel size, cost 928 bytes on x86, and
> 2728 bytes on ia64. But certainly worth the money for enterprise
> customer since they improve performance on enterprise workload.
Less that 1k on x86 versus >2k on ia64. No wonder those things have such
big caches ;)
> ...
> Possible we can introduce them back?
OK by me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 0:24 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-11 0:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-11 13:08 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-11 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-11 18:39 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-24 21:16 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-24 22:22 ` Ingo Molnar
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