Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] x86: convert ticketlocks to C and remove duplicate code

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 06/24/2011 02:50 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 06/23/2011 06:19 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>> I've been running with this code in place for several months on 4
>core
>>> systems without any problems.
>>>
>>> I couldn't measure a consistent performance difference between the
>two
>>> implemenations; there seemed to be +/- ~1% +/-, which is the level
>of
>>> variation I see from simply recompiling the kernel with slightly
>>> different code alignment.
>>>
>>> Overall, I think the large reduction in code size is a big win.
>>>
>> Could you give us the delta in *compiled* code size?
>
>Sure.  Do you mean for the individual lock sequences, or for the
>overall
>kernel?
>
>    J

Overall is fine.
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