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SubjectRe: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c
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On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:57, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 04:41:47 -0400, cutaway wrote:
>
> > The compilers got tweaked to be able to emit
> > function code to different text sections and a massive system wide code
> > triage was undertaken based on "common usage scenario" profiling run data
> > from the perf analysis group.
>
> Linux scheduler code is in its own text section already, but
> that might be for profiling the code instead of for performance.
> (Look for "__sched" in the source code.)
>
> The gains may not be as much as you think since on X86 and at least
> some other archs the entire kernel is in one large page. Still, it's
> got to make some kind of sense to put infrequently-used code in its
> own section just to reduce cache pollution.
>
> I came up with this

Nice.

> but only the "__slow" part really makes sense:

80/20 rule says that 80% of code runs 20% of time,
thus we need only __fast. Everything else will be by default __slow.
(IOW: normal .text section is __slow, no need to add another one).

If gcc will someday get per-function support for using -O2 / -Os
like optimizations, they could be added to the __fast macro.

> --- 2.6.12.1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2004-09-03 19:55:27.000000000 -0400
> +++ 2.6.12.1-ce1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-06-26 01:48:23.770212000 -0400
> @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ SECTIONS
> /* read-only */
> _text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
> .text : {
> + *(.fast.text)
> *(.text)
> SCHED_TEXT
> LOCK_TEXT
> + *(.slow.text)
> *(.fixup)
> *(.gnu.warning)
> } = 0x9090
> --- 2.6.12.1/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-06-24 00:50:21.180212000 -0400
> +++ 2.6.12.1-ce1/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2005-06-26 01:50:09.100212000 -0400
> @@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ SECTIONS
> phys_startup_64 = startup_64 - LOAD_OFFSET;
> _text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
> .text : {
> + *(.fast.text)
> *(.text)
> SCHED_TEXT
> LOCK_TEXT
> + *(.slow.text)
> *(.fixup)
> *(.gnu.warning)
> } = 0x9090
> --- 2.6.12.1/include/linux/init.h 2005-01-04 21:48:02.000000000 -0500
> +++ 2.6.12.1-ce1/include/linux/init.h 2005-06-26 01:59:29.580212000 -0400
> @@ -46,6 +46,17 @@
> #define __exitdata __attribute__ ((__section__(".exit.data")))
> #define __exit_call __attribute_used__ __attribute__ ((__section__ (".exitcall.exit")))
>
> +/*
> + * Probably belongs in some other header (compiler.h?)
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +#define __fast __attribute__ ((__section__(".fast.text")))
> +#define __slow __attribute__ ((__section__(".slow.text")))
> +#else
> +#define __fast
> +#define __slow
> +#endif
> +
> #ifdef MODULE
> #define __exit __attribute__ ((__section__(".exit.text")))
> #else
--
vda

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