Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:30:07 -0500 | Subject | Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()? | From | Hollis Blanchard <> |
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On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 06:28 US/Central, Alan Cox wrote: > > Code size for critical paths is getting more and more performance > critical > on x86 as well as on the embedded CPU systems. 3Ghz superscalar > processors > lose a lot of clocks to a memory stall.
So you're arguing for more inlining, because icache speculative prefetch will pick up the inlined code?
Or you're arguing for less, because code like get_current() which is called frequently could have a single copy living in icache?
-- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center
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