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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Convert PDA into the percpu section
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:55:50 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173268550.32234.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173227582.4644.74.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:33 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:34 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Do you have text size comparisons before/after and possible lmbench? 
> 
> No, but I'll run them this evening.  Last time the size reduction was
> slight, and there was no measurable performance improvement in
> microbenchmarks.

Here are the size results, for a start:


UP:
Before:
size vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3094881  243110  221184 3559175  364f07 vmlinux

After:
size vmlinux 
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3093409  243142  221184 3557735  364967 vmlinux

SMP:
Before:
size vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3222269  318770  237568 3778607  39a82f vmlinux

After:
size vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3221421  314674  237568 3773663  3994df vmlinux

(The data size changes are moving from pda -> percpu, and on SMP
removing the page-aligned PDA).

So, a slight win.  lmbench tomorrow...

Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 12:39 [PATCH 0/8] x86 boot, pda and gdt cleanups Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] Remove cpu_gdt_table: use boot_gdt_table until migration to per-cpu Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 12:54   ` [PATCH 2/8] Remove NR_CPUS from asm-generic/percpu.h Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 12:55     ` [PATCH 3/8] Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 12:57       ` [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup setup_pda Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 12:58         ` [PATCH 5/8] Cleanup GDT access Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 13:00           ` [PATCH 6/8] Allow per-cpu variables to be page-aligned Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 13:01             ` [PATCH 7/8] Page-align the GDT Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 13:03               ` [PATCH 8/8] Convert PDA into the percpu section Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 13:10                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07  0:12                   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-07  0:35                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-06 18:28                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-06 19:34                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 18:37                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07  0:33                   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-07 11:55                     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-03-13 17:15                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14  2:27                   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 13:15             ` [PATCH 6/8] Allow per-cpu variables to be page-aligned Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07  0:16               ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-07  0:44                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-06 18:17             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-07  0:29               ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-06 18:16           ` [PATCH 5/8] Cleanup GDT access Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-06 18:14       ` [PATCH 3/8] Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-06 13:21     ` [PATCH 2/8] Remove NR_CPUS from asm-generic/percpu.h Ingo Molnar
2007-03-06 13:20   ` [PATCH 1/8] Remove cpu_gdt_table: use boot_gdt_table until migration to per-cpu Ingo Molnar
2007-03-06 13:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07  0:22     ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-13 20:48 ` [PATCH 0/8] x86 boot, pda and gdt cleanups Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14  2:25   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-14  4:39     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14  6:54       ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-14 23:55   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-15  1:57     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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