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Message-ID: <56F530C1.9010106@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 20:36:17 +0800
From: "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC: <mingo@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...hat.com>,
Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@...il.com>,
"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>, <pi3orama@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf core: Prepare writing into ring buffer from end
On 2016/3/25 20:26, Wangnan (F) wrote:
>
>
> On 2016/3/23 17:50, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 09:59:43AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
>>> Convert perf_output_begin to __perf_output_begin and make the later
>>> function able to write records from the end of the ring buffer.
>>> Following commits will utilize the 'backward' flag.
>>>
>>> This patch doesn't introduce any extra performance overhead since we
>>> use always_inline.
>> So while I agree that with __always_inline and constant propagation we
>> _should_ end up with the same code, we have:
>>
>> $ size defconfig-build/kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.{pre,post}
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 3785 2 0 3787 ecb
>> defconfig-build/kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.pre
>> 3673 2 0 3675 e5b
>> defconfig-build/kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.post
>>
>> The patch actually makes the file shrink.
>>
>> So I think we still want to have some actual performance numbers.
>
> In my environment the two objects are nearly idential:
>
>
> $ objdump -d kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.new > ./out.new.S
> $ objdump -d kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.old > ./out.old.S
>
> --- ./out.old.S 2016-03-25 12:18:52.060656423 +0000
> +++ ./out.new.S 2016-03-25 12:18:45.376630269 +0000
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>
> -kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.old: file format elf64-x86-64
> +kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.new: file format elf64-x86-64
>
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
> @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
> 402: 4d 8d 04 0f lea (%r15,%rcx,1),%r8
> 406: 48 89 c8 mov %rcx,%rax
> 409: 4c 0f b1 43 40 cmpxchg %r8,0x40(%rbx)
> - 40e: 48 39 c8 cmp %rcx,%rax
> + 40e: 48 39 c1 cmp %rax,%rcx
> 411: 75 b4 jne 3c7 <perf_output_begin+0xc7>
> 413: 48 8b 73 58 mov 0x58(%rbx),%rsi
> 417: 48 8b 43 68 mov 0x68(%rbx),%rax
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
> 480: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
> 482: 0f 85 02 ff ff ff jne 38a <perf_output_begin+0x8a>
> 488: 48 c7 c2 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdx
> - 48f: be 7c 00 00 00 mov $0x7c,%esi
> + 48f: be 89 00 00 00 mov $0x89,%esi
> 494: 48 c7 c7 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdi
> 49b: c6 05 00 00 00 00 01 movb $0x1,0x0(%rip) # 4a2
> <perf_output_begin+0x1a2>
> 4a2: e8 00 00 00 00 callq 4a7 <perf_output_begin+0x1a7>
> @@ -874,7 +874,7 @@
> c39: eb e7 jmp c22
> <perf_aux_output_begin+0x172>
> c3b: 80 3d 00 00 00 00 00 cmpb $0x0,0x0(%rip) # c42
> <perf_aux_output_begin+0x192>
> c42: 75 93 jne bd7
> <perf_aux_output_begin+0x127>
> - c44: be 2b 01 00 00 mov $0x12b,%esi
> + c44: be 49 01 00 00 mov $0x149,%esi
> c49: 48 c7 c7 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdi
> c50: e8 00 00 00 00 callq c55
> <perf_aux_output_begin+0x1a5>
> c55: c6 05 00 00 00 00 01 movb $0x1,0x0(%rip) # c5c
> <perf_aux_output_begin+0x1ac>
>
>
> I think you enabled some unusual config options?
>
You must enabled CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING. Now I get similar result:
$ size kernel/events/ring_buffer.o*
text data bss dec hex filename
4545 4 8 4557 11cd
kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.new
4641 4 8 4653 122d
kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.old
Thank you.
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