[Xen-devel] [PATCH] block/xen-blkback: Deinline shrink_free_pagepool, save 204 bytes

2016-03-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
This function compiles to 201 bytes of machine code. 2 callsites. This function has a spinlocked code section, which is significantly more expensive than call/return overhead. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> C

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] block/xen-blkback: Deinline put_free_pages, save 645 bytes

2016-03-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
This function compiles to 170 bytes of machine code. 7 callsites. This function has a spinlocked code section, which is significantly more expensive than call/return overhead. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> C

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions

2015-02-10 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 06:23 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: add_smp(lock-tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); if (READ_ONCE(lock-tickets.tail) TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. into something like val