Re: [PATCH 1/7] signals: reduce {setup,restore}_sigcontext sizes

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:18:17PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:

> From: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
> 
> This trivial change reduces considerably code size of these
> 2 functions callers. For instance, here is the figures for
> arch/kernel/signal.o objects:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   11972       0       0   11972    2ec4 arch/mips/kernel/signal.o~old
>    5380       0       0    5380    1504 arch/mips/kernel/signal.o~new

Have you ran any benchmarks on this?  Unrolling the loops used to make
a noticable difference.

  Ralf