linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] enforce function inlining for hot functions

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Date:	Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:53:42 +0200
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enforce function inlining for hot functions

On 2015.04.24 at 22:39 +0200, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:
> On 24 April 2015 at 21:49, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > I can't reproduce this with either gcc-4.8.2 or gcc-4.4.4.  The patch
> > makes zero difference to `size vmlinux' and a bit of poking around with
> > nm doesn't show any out-of-lined versions of the functions you
> > identify.
> >
> > So.  More details, please.  How to demonstrate this, gcc versions, etc.
> 
> first of all you should probably scan over https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/21/178
> Some questions are already answered there.
> 
> Here is the situation: the inlining problem occur with the 4.9.x
> branch - I tried to reproduce it with 4.8.x and saw *no* problems. So
> it is probably limited to 4.9 - which is sad. I don't checked it with
> 5.0 or 5.1 yet. Then, if CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is disabled inlining
> is enforced anyway, so there is no problem because all inlined marked
> functions are always inlined - gcc heuristic is defacto disabled. This
> patch makes sure that the hot functions always inlined, no matter what
> config is selected or compiler version is used. Yes, in an ideal world
> gcc had inlined most of them - now we enforce the ideal world.

Please note that this only happens with -Os (aka
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE). The reason for this is that gcc simply
doesn't inline when the function body would grow if the call is
considered cold.

-- 
Markus
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