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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing/module: Move tracepoint out of module.h
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:40:22 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lionjr41.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120131122016.GF32010@elte.hu>

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > Wow, we're really bikeshedding this!
> 
> Hey, I don't think this is bikesheddig: we are shedding 
> *kilobytes* of code from pretty hot codepaths, that kind of 
> topic does deserve some detailed attention :-)

I agree, but we put the bloat in without this much discussion :)

I get the impression last I looked that most get/put aren't actually hot
paths (though it was designed to allow that, such as an inc per packet).
Which is an even better reason to out-of-line it...

> > Doesn't save me much here, though.  What are your stats?
> 
> I suspect it depends on inlining options in the .config plus on 
> event tracing?
...
> Most distro kernels do tracepoints so I guess that's where the 
> size delta comes from :-) In any case:
> 

Yeah, I'm rebuilding an Ubuntu config kernel before and after to get
some more accurate stats on the final result for the commit message.

> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 22:57 [PATCH][GIT PULL][v3.3] tracing: Add header wrappers event_headers_start.h and event_headers_end.h Steven Rostedt
2012-01-17  9:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 13:32   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-18 12:07     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-18 17:56       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-22 22:59         ` Rusty Russell
2012-01-26  2:41           ` [RFC][PATCH] tracing/module: Move tracepoint out of module.h Steven Rostedt
2012-01-26  2:45             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-26 10:28             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-26 13:52               ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-26 13:55                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-26 14:04                   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-26 14:07                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-26 14:36                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-26 18:39                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-27  3:02                         ` Rusty Russell
2012-01-30 11:52                           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-30 17:28                             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-31  3:58                             ` Rusty Russell
2012-01-31 12:20                               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-31 12:50                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-02-01  6:48                                   ` Rusty Russell
2012-02-01 13:27                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-02-01 13:49                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-01 14:25                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-29  4:22                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-29  5:24                                       ` Rusty Russell
2012-02-01  1:10                                 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2012-02-01  7:09                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30  6:40                       ` Li Zefan
2012-02-17 13:46       ` [tip:perf/core] tracing/softirq: Move __raise_softirq_irqoff() out of header tip-bot for Steven Rostedt

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