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SubjectRe: [RFC] speeding up the stat() family of system calls...

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 12/26/2013 10:09 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 12/26/2013 11:00 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>
> >> Interestingly, looking at the cp_new_stat() profiles, the games we
> >> play to get efficient range checking seem to actually hurt us. Maybe
> >> it's the "sbb" that is just expensive, or maybe it's turning a (very
> >> predictable) conditional branch into a data dependency chain instead.
> >> Or maybe it's just random noise in my profiles that happened to make
> >> those sbb's look bad.
> >>
> >
> > Much to my surprise, this patch adds almost 10K of text to an
> > "allyesconfig" build. I wouldn't have expected it. I'll look at
> > it some more tomorrow.
>
> Mystery solved... it is all code added by gcov &c because a new
> (inline) function is added to the code base. So it is fluff, not
> real.

Yeah, defconfig builds are better for size comparisons, at least on
x86 they are distro-config derived so a lot more relevant to real life
than allyesconfig or allmodconfig.

Thanks,

Ingo


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