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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/24] s390: channel path measurements.
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:47:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323104722.4183efbb@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060322132655.79d85b61.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:26:55 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> hm, it's somewhat unusual for MAX_FOO to be inclusive.  Usually it means
> "greatest possible+1".

__MAX_SUBCHANNEL and friends in drivers/s390/cio/css.h all use the same
semantics :)

> > +static inline int
> > +__chsc_do_secm(struct channel_subsystem *css, int enable, void *page)
> 
> This has two callsites.  inlining it probably deoptimises things.

OK.

> 
> > +	secm_area->request = (struct chsc_header) {
> > +		.length = 0x0050,
> > +		.code   = 0x0016,
> > +	};
> 
> gcc tends to generate poor code for this construct.

Switching this to direct initialization seems to save a mvc. I'll
convert all instances in chsc.c for consistency.

Cornelia

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22 15:15 Martin Schwidefsky
2006-03-22 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-23  9:47   ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2006-03-23 10:19     ` [patch] s390: channel path measurements fixups Cornelia Huck

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