On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:10:42PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I think you could get most of the benefit by just dropping
> the volatile and "memory" from read_pda(). With that gcc would
> usually CSE current into a register and it would would work essentially
> the same way with only minor more .text overhead, but r10 would be still
> available.
>
> Unfortunately when that's done then the kernel doesn't boot.
> It's probably something silly, but i never had time to track it down.
> Might want to look into that?
Without even fixing it, the difference in kernel code size is still 20K
less than what using a register does. The benefit of using a register is
that accessing a field in current can simply offset the register, compared
to the pda usage that requires loading current into a register before the
offset is performed. Using 'size' on the resulting kernels shows:
text data bss dec hex filename
4132289 819632 317256 5269177 5066b9 vmlinux.orig
4119951 819632 317256 5256839 503687 vmlinux.non-volatile
4097300 819560 317256 5234116 4fddc4 vmlinux.r10
I think that using a register makes more sense given the benefits.
-ben
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