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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Align jump targets to 1 byte boundaries
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:09:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413190914.GA398@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyWonZVCwynECu1TgpraNnQ_K8YzHf9oPMUM3-St-QaPw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2015.04.13 at 11:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
> <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> >
> > I must have made a measurement mistake above, because the actual code
> > size savings are roughly 5%:
> 
> Can you check against the -fno-guess-branch-probability output?

   text    data     bss     dec     filename
   8746230  970072  802816 10519118 ./vmlinux gcc-5 (lto) 
   9202488  978512  811008 10992008 ./vmlinux gcc-5
   8036915  970296  802816 9810027  ./vmlinux gcc-5 (lto -fno-guess-branch-probability)
   8593615  978512  811008 10383135 ./vmlinux gcc-5 (-fno-guess-branch-probability)

> Does lto (without pgo) perhaps end up undoing a lot of the random
> "branch out and back" noise?

As Honza wrote somewhere else in this thread, gcc uses
-fguess-branch-probability to get a profile estimate, that is then used
throughout the whole optimization chain. So disabling this option
really makes no sense and will result in significant performance loss.

On the other hand the LTO code size savings should not affect
performance negatively at all.

-- 
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-08 19:39 [PATCH 0/2] locking: Simplify mutex and rwsem spinning code Jason Low
2015-04-08 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] locking/mutex: Further refactor mutex_spin_on_owner() Jason Low
2015-04-09  9:00   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner() tip-bot for Jason Low
2015-04-08 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] locking/rwsem: Use a return variable in rwsem_spin_on_owner() Jason Low
2015-04-09  5:37   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-09  6:40     ` Jason Low
2015-04-09  7:53       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-09 16:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-09 17:56           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-09 18:08             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-09 18:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-09 18:39                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-10  9:00                   ` [PATCH] mutex: Speed up mutex_spin_on_owner() by not taking the RCU lock Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10  9:12                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10  9:21                       ` [PATCH] uaccess: Add __copy_from_kernel_inatomic() primitive Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 11:14                         ` [PATCH] x86/uaccess: Implement get_kernel() Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 11:27                           ` [PATCH] mutex: Improve mutex_spin_on_owner() code generation Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 12:08                             ` [PATCH] x86: Align jump targets to 1 byte boundaries Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 12:18                               ` [PATCH] x86: Pack function addresses tightly as well Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 12:30                                 ` [PATCH] x86: Pack loops " Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 13:46                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-15  9:40                                   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-05-17  6:03                                   ` [tip:x86/apic] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-05-15  9:39                                 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Pack function addresses " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-05-15 18:36                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-15 20:52                                     ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-17  5:58                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-17  7:09                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-17  7:30                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-18  9:28                                       ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-19 21:38                                       ` [RFC PATCH] x86/64: Optimize the effective instruction cache footprint of kernel functions Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20  0:47                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-20 12:21                                           ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-21 11:36                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-21 11:38                                             ` Denys Vlasenko
2016-04-16 21:08                                               ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-20 13:09                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20 11:29                                         ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-21 13:28                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-21 14:03                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 12:50                               ` [PATCH] x86: Align jump targets to 1 byte boundaries Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-10 13:18                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-10 17:54                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 18:32                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-11 14:41                                   ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-12 10:14                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-13 16:23                                       ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-13 17:26                                         ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-13 18:31                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-13 19:09                                             ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2015-04-14  5:38                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-14  8:23                                                 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-14  9:16                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-14 11:17                                                     ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-14 12:09                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 18:48                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-12 23:44                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-04-10 19:23                                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-11 13:48                                 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-10 13:19                               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-10 13:54                                 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-10 14:01                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-10 14:53                                     ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-10 15:25                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-10 15:48                                         ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-10 15:54                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-10 21:44                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-10 18:54                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-10 14:10                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-11 14:28                                 ` Josh Triplett
2015-04-11  9:20                               ` [PATCH] x86: Turn off GCC branch probability heuristics Ingo Molnar
2015-04-11 17:41                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-11 18:57                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-11 19:35                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-12  5:47                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-12  6:20                                         ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-04-12 10:15                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-12  7:56                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-12  7:41                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-12  8:07                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-12 21:11                                     ` Jan Hubicka
2015-05-14 11:59                               ` [PATCH] x86: Align jump targets to 1 byte boundaries Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-14 18:17                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-14 19:04                                   ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-05-14 19:44                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-15 15:45                                   ` Josh Triplett
2015-05-17  5:34                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-17 19:18                                       ` Josh Triplett
2015-05-18  6:48                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-15  9:39                               ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Align jump targets to 1-byte boundaries tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 11:34                           ` [PATCH] x86/uaccess: Implement get_kernel() Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-10 18:04                             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 17:49                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-10 18:04                             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 18:09                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-10 14:20                     ` [PATCH] mutex: Speed up mutex_spin_on_owner() by not taking the RCU lock Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-10 17:44                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-10 18:05                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-09 19:43                 ` [PATCH 2/2] locking/rwsem: Use a return variable in rwsem_spin_on_owner() Jason Low
2015-04-09 19:58                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-09 20:58                     ` Jason Low
2015-04-09 21:07                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-09 19:59                   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-04-09 20:36                 ` Jason Low
2015-04-10  2:43                   ` Andev
2015-04-10  9:04                   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-08 19:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] locking: Simplify mutex and rwsem spinning code Davidlohr Bueso
2015-04-08 20:10   ` Jason Low

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