Re: [RFC PATCH 15/35] subarch support for controlling interrupt delivery

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 17:56:03 EST



> 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
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