linux-kernel - Re: What is the performance when using frame pointers in the kernel?

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Date:	Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:31:03 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the performance when using frame pointers in the kernel?

Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> writes:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> > What is the performance hit when the kernel is compiled with frame 
>> > pointers?
>> 
>> build both kernels and run your favourite workload to find out.
>
> But generally speaking, frame pointers impose quite some performance 
> penalty indeed. lmbench syscall microbenchmark can give you some hint. I 
> expect you'll see approx. 10% performance increase for various syscalls if 
> you disable them, as that's what we have measured lately.

It'll depend on the CPU. On many common cores frame pointer cause
a a few cycles stall on each function entry, but not on all.

-Andi

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