From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751185AbWEIV4g (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 17:56:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751190AbWEIV4g (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 17:56:36 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:3534 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbWEIV4f (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 17:56:35 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Christian Limpach Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 15/35] subarch support for controlling interrupt delivery Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 23:56:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, "Martin J. Bligh" , Chris Wright , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Pratt References: <20060509084945.373541000@sous-sol.org> <200605091831.37757.ak@suse.de> <20060509204207.GQ7834@cl.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060509204207.GQ7834@cl.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605092356.28818.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Everything[1] in line: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 cl349 cl349 2633640 May 9 19:42 vmlinux-inline-stripped > Everything out of line: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 cl349 cl349 2621352 May 9 19:45 vmlinux-outline-stripped > > Additionally, I changed did a build with only __sti and __restore_flags > out of line and the others in line: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 cl349 cl349 2617256 May 9 19:50 vmlinux-hybrid-stripped > > __sti and __restore_flags are the ones which generate more code, > so it seemed more sensible to make the out of line. > > Any conlusions? It looks like hybrid is a clear winner at least from the code size, isn't it? I doubt you will be able to benchmark the difference for anything else anyways so might as well aim for that. -Andi