From: "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
To: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:35:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363181704.32099.360.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130219203115.114eab79e8d2099c6306d921@freescale.com>
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On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 20:31 -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
>
> > > imx_v6_v7_defconfig: 7672373 7667089 -5284
> > > lart_defconfig: 2941150 2941054 -96
> > > mxs_defconfig: 11091983 11095679 3696
> >
> > The savings are good, with some impressive cases. However the
> > mxs_defconfig is completely the opposite and by far. Any idea?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to reproduce this anymore.
> Same linux-next, with three different compilers always produces
> smaller binaries:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 5239363 280576 5569648 11089587 a936b3 linux-next-mxs-orig-gcc4.7/vmlinux
> 5239169 280556 5569648 11089373 a935dd linux-next-mxs-bswap-gcc4.7/vmlinux
>
> 5262223 280592 5569648 11112463 a9900f linux-next-mxs-orig-gcc4.6.3/vmlinux
> 5261909 280584 5569648 11112141 a98ecd linux-next-mxs-bswap-gcc4.6.3/vmlinux
>
> 5241379 280580 5569648 11091607 a93e97 linux-next-mxs-orig-gcc4.6ubuntu/vmlinux
> 5241189 280600 5569648 11091437 a93ded linux-next-mxs-bswap-gcc4.6ubuntu/vmlinux
>
> So I've since made a more consistent cross-build environment, using
> cross tools from Linaro [1,2] instead of via Ubuntu [3].
Andrew Pinski has done some work on GCC to support further
optimisations: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55177
If you feel like building with the branch at
http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pinskia/bytewiseunop and seeing how that affects the results, that could be interesting.
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From: david.woodhouse@intel.com (Woodhouse, David)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:35:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363181704.32099.360.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130219203115.114eab79e8d2099c6306d921@freescale.com>
On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 20:31 -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
>
> > > imx_v6_v7_defconfig: 7672373 7667089 -5284
> > > lart_defconfig: 2941150 2941054 -96
> > > mxs_defconfig: 11091983 11095679 3696
> >
> > The savings are good, with some impressive cases. However the
> > mxs_defconfig is completely the opposite and by far. Any idea?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to reproduce this anymore.
> Same linux-next, with three different compilers always produces
> smaller binaries:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 5239363 280576 5569648 11089587 a936b3 linux-next-mxs-orig-gcc4.7/vmlinux
> 5239169 280556 5569648 11089373 a935dd linux-next-mxs-bswap-gcc4.7/vmlinux
>
> 5262223 280592 5569648 11112463 a9900f linux-next-mxs-orig-gcc4.6.3/vmlinux
> 5261909 280584 5569648 11112141 a98ecd linux-next-mxs-bswap-gcc4.6.3/vmlinux
>
> 5241379 280580 5569648 11091607 a93e97 linux-next-mxs-orig-gcc4.6ubuntu/vmlinux
> 5241189 280600 5569648 11091437 a93ded linux-next-mxs-bswap-gcc4.6ubuntu/vmlinux
>
> So I've since made a more consistent cross-build environment, using
> cross tools from Linaro [1,2] instead of via Ubuntu [3].
Andrew Pinski has done some work on GCC to support further
optimisations: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55177
If you feel like building with the branch at
http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pinskia/bytewiseunop and seeing how that affects the results, that could be interesting.
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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com Intel Corporation
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Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 1:30 [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function Kim Phillips
2013-01-29 1:30 ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-29 8:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 8:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 16:46 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 16:46 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 17:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 17:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 17:55 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 17:55 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 18:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 18:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-30 10:22 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-30 10:22 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-31 2:09 ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-31 2:09 ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-31 6:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-31 6:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-31 9:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-31 9:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-31 20:59 ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-31 20:59 ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-31 21:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-31 21:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-31 22:11 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-31 22:11 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-01 0:37 ` [PATCH v4] " Kim Phillips
2013-02-01 0:37 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-01 10:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01 10:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01 1:17 ` [RFC] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01 1:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01 7:33 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-01 7:33 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-06 3:04 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-06 3:04 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-06 9:02 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-06 9:02 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-07 1:19 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-07 1:19 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-07 10:19 ` Will Newton
2013-02-07 10:19 ` Will Newton
2013-02-07 10:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-02-07 10:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-02-07 18:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-07 18:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-08 17:25 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-08 17:25 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-08 20:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-08 20:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-08 22:40 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-08 22:40 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-08 22:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-08 22:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-09 1:12 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-09 1:12 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-09 3:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-09 3:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 2:31 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-20 2:31 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-20 2:38 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-02-20 2:38 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-02-20 3:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 3:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 10:38 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 10:38 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 13:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 13:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 13:44 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 13:44 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 14:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 14:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 14:53 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 14:53 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 15:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 15:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21 3:49 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 3:49 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 4:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21 4:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21 6:52 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 6:52 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 16:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21 16:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-22 2:33 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-22 2:33 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-22 3:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-22 3:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-23 1:40 ` [PATCH v6] " Kim Phillips
2013-02-23 1:40 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-23 2:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-23 2:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-23 23:20 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-23 23:20 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-05-23 16:46 ` [PATCH v7] " Kim Phillips
2013-05-23 16:46 ` Kim Phillips
2013-05-23 20:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-23 20:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-23 23:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 23:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-06 22:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-06 22:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-06 22:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-06 22:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-07 0:03 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-06-07 0:03 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-05-26 5:38 ` Dirk Behme
2013-05-26 9:30 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-10-27 2:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-27 2:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-11-05 21:45 ` Kim Phillips
2013-11-05 21:45 ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 16:37 ` [RFC] " Woodhouse, David
2013-02-21 16:37 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-21 17:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21 17:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-03-13 13:35 ` Woodhouse, David [this message]
2013-03-13 13:35 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 14:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 14:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 14:43 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 14:43 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 14:53 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-29 14:53 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-29 15:10 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 15:10 ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-31 11:44 Woodhouse, David
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