On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:04:19PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:23:39AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Olof Johansson writes: > > > > > Not using the ppc-specific WARN_ON/BUG_ON constructs actually saves about > > > 4K text on a ppc64_defconfig. The main reason seems to be that prepping > > > the arguments to the conditional trap instructions is more work than > > > just doing a compare and branch. > > > > It might be more instructions but it takes fewer cycles, I would > > expect. Do you have the actual instruction sequences to compare? > > > > I really hope WARN_ON/BUG_ON aren't hotpaths on powerpc. ;-)
Not the taken branch of them, no. :) But making it past them as fast as possible when they're not tripping is always good. -Olof - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
