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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:08:33 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: Bernd Schubert <bs@...eap.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Subject: Re: frame unwinder patches > to be honest, on 64 bit the overhead is quite small (the extra > instructions it adds are optimized for by the modern cpus that you use The pipeline dependency stalls yes, the icache/decode overhead no. Also CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER currently enables -fno-sibling-calls which generates significantly worse code for a lot of common kernel constructs. > in the systems you're selling); on 32 bit the overhead is.. well a > little bigger but not THAT much. yes it loses a register for the > compiler to use, but no it's not a general purpose register, and with %rbp is a general purpose register. In fact it's even better than a general purpose register because it has often shorter encoding than the other registers, but is as versatile. > the register renaming that today's cpus do, I'd be surprised if you > could see anything significant. Even on modern CPUs you can measure it in macro benchmarks, at least that was the state last time that was investigated. On older CPUs without the magic hardware it was even more significant. Also there are even new CPUs like Atom which don't have the magic hardware. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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