* Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you post your .config for the test?
> If you have CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y in your -Os test,
> consider re-testing with it turned off.
Yes, I had CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y.
With that turned off, on GCC 4.9.2, I'm seeing:
fomalhaut:~/linux/linux-____CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y> size
vmlinux.OPTIMIZE_INLINING\=*
text data bss dec hex filename
12150606 2565544 1634304 16350454 f97cf6
vmlinux.OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
12354814 2572520 1634304 16561638 fcb5e6
vmlinux.OPTIMIZE_INLINING=n
I.e. forcing the inlining increases the kernel size again, by about
1.7%.
I re-ran the tests on the Intel system, and got these I$ miss rates:
linux-falign-functions=_64-bytes: 647,853,942
L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.07% )
(100.00%)
linux-falign-functions=_16-bytes: 706,080,917
L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.05% )
(100.00%)
linux-CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y+OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y: 921,910,808
L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.05% )
(100.00%)
linux-CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y+OPTIMIZE_INLINING=n: 792,395,265
L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.05% )
(100.00%)
So yeah, it got better - but the I$ cache miss rate is still 22.4%
higher than that of the 64-bytes aligned kernel and 12.2% higher than
the vanilla kernel.
Elapsed time had this original OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE result:
8.531418784 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.19% )
this now improved to:
7.686174880 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.18% )
but it's still much worse than the 64-byte aligned one:
7.154816369 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.03% )
and the 16-byte aligned one:
7.333597250 seconds time elapsed
( +- 0.48% )
> You may be seeing this: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66122
Yeah, disabling OPTIMIZE_INLINING made a difference - but it didn't
recover the performance loss, -Os is still 4.8% slower in this
workload than the vanilla kernel.
Thanks,
Ingo
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