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From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/4] Tell GCC 4.1 to move unlikely() code to a separate section
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:34:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602280135_MC3-1-B974-938A@compuserve.com> (raw)

In-Reply-To: <200602271639.34776.ak@suse.de>

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:39:34, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 16:31, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > This patch is more controversial I assume; it offers the option 
> > to use the gcc 4.1 option to move unlikely() code to a separate section.
> > On the con side, this means that longer byte sequences are needed to jump
> > to this code, on the Pro side it means that the unlikely() code isn't sharing
> > icache cachelines and tlbs anymore.
> 
> I don't think this will do anything because the default Makefile
> still has
> 
> CFLAGS += -fno-reorder-blocks 

This also won't work for functions that specify an explicit section name,
e.g. __sched, __kprobes etc. -- at least that's what the gcc 4.0.2 docs say.

-- 
Chuck
"Equations are the Devil's sentences."  --Stephen Colbert


             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28  6:34 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-27 15:23 [Patch 0/4] Reordering of functions, try 2 Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 15:31 ` [Patch 4/4] Tell GCC 4.1 to move unlikely() code to a separate section Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 15:39   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-27 23:33     ` Bill Davidsen

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