From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"open list\:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 05/10] lib: vdso: inline do_hres()
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:07:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8vbrpej.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a36OgFuY72b_i6+0xBNGnaxS1SsRid+HrgQHPZtUJp3LQ@mail.gmail.com>
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 3:31 PM Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
>>
>> do_hres() is called from several places, so GCC doesn't inline
>> it at first.
>>
>> do_hres() takes a struct __kernel_timespec * parameter for
>> passing the result. In the 32 bits case, this parameter corresponds
>> to a local var in the caller. In order to provide a pointer
>> to this structure, the caller has to put it in its stack and
>> do_hres() has to write the result in the stack. This is suboptimal,
>> especially on RISC processor like powerpc.
>>
>> By making GCC inline the function, the struct __kernel_timespec
>> remains a local var using registers, avoiding the need to write and
>> read stack.
>>
>> The improvement is significant on powerpc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
>
> Good idea, I can see how this ends up being an improvement
> for most of the callers.
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-3-dima@arista.com
On the way to be applied.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-10 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 14:31 [RFC PATCH v2 00/10] powerpc/32: switch VDSO to C implementation Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] lib: vdso: ensure all arches have 32bit fallback Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-10 20:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-10 21:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-30 12:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-02 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-09 15:43 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/10] lib: vdso: move call to fallback out of common code Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 11:41 ` christophe leroy
2019-12-24 12:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/10] lib: vdso: Change __cvdso_clock_gettime/getres_common() to __cvdso_clock_gettime/getres() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] lib: vdso: get pointer to vdso data from the arch Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 11:53 ` christophe leroy
2019-12-24 12:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 12:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 14:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/10] lib: vdso: inline do_hres() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 2:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-30 12:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-10 21:07 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-01-11 9:06 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] lib: vdso: make do_coarse() return 0 Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/10] lib: vdso: don't use READ_ONCE() in __c_kernel_time() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 1:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-24 11:12 ` christophe leroy
2019-12-24 12:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-10 21:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-11 8:05 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-11 11:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-01-13 6:52 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] lib: vdso: Avoid duplication in __cvdso_clock_getres() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-24 1:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/10] powerpc/vdso32: inline __get_datapage() Christophe Leroy
2019-12-23 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/10] powerpc/32: Switch VDSO to C implementation Christophe Leroy
2020-01-09 17:52 ` Surprising code generated for vdso_read_begin() Christophe Leroy
2020-01-09 20:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-01-10 6:45 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-11 11:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-02-16 18:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-19 8:45 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-02-19 9:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-19 13:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
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