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

["Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

On 1/23/07, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:18:17PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> >    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.
No, I haven't. Since the size code has been reduced by a factor 2, I
would think that signal code can better fit in instruction cache
lines. For example, the loop is made up by 11 instructions (I don't
know why gcc makes it so big though) which fits into 3 cache lines in
my cases. Where as the old code generated 246 instructions for the
same job, which should cause many more cache misses.

Do you have any pointers on benchmarks I could run ?

thanks
--
              Franck