Re: [Patch 4/4] Tell GCC 4.1 to move unlikely() code to a separate section

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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

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