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Message-Id: <200711090007.43424.ak@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:07:42 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: Some interesting observations when trying to optimize vmstat handling
> There is an interrupt enable overhead of 48 cycles that would be good to
> be able to eliminate (Kernel code usually moves counter increments into
> a neighboring interrupt disable section so that __ function can be used).
Replace the push flags ; popf with test $IFMASK,flags ; jz 1f; sti ; 1:
That will likely make it much faster (but also bigger)
The only problem is that there might be some code who relies on
restore_flags() restoring other flags that IF, but at least for interrupts
and local_irq_save/restore it should be fine to change.
-Andi
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