Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 May 2006 00:16:50 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Make powerpc64 use __thread for per-cpu variables | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:03:59PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > With this patch, 64-bit powerpc uses __thread for per-cpu variables.
Nice! I like the way you hid the slb functions so they can't ever be called by mistake from C code. :-)
This patch a ppc64_defconfig vmlinux a bit (with the other two percpu patches):
olof@quad:~/work/linux/powerpc $ ls -l vmlinux.pre vmlinux -rwxr-xr-x 1 olof olof 10290928 2006-05-09 23:48 vmlinux.pre -rwxr-xr-x 1 olof olof 10307499 2006-05-09 23:50 vmlinux olof@quad:~/work/linux/powerpc $ size vmlinux.pre vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 5554034 2404256 480472 8438762 80c3ea vmlinux.pre 5578866 2384944 498848 8462658 812142 vmlinux
Looks like alot of the text growth is from the added mfsprg3 instructions:
$ objdump -d vmlinux.pre | egrep mfsprg.\*,3\$ | wc -l 26 $ objdump -d vmlinux | egrep mfsprg.\*,3\$ | wc -l 5134
... so, as the PACA gets deprecated, the bloat will go away again.
> The motivation for doing this is that getting the address of a per-cpu > variable currently requires two loads (one to get our per-cpu offset > and one to get the address of the variable in the .data.percpu > section) plus an add. With __thread we can get the address of our > copy of a per-cpu variable with just an add (r13 plus a constant).
It would be interesting to see benchmarks of how much it improves things. I guess it doesn't really get interesting until after the paca gets removed though, due to the added mfsprg's.
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