On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 09:34:32AM +1100, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 02/23/2017 05:40 PM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> > Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> writes:
> > > These functions are becoming quite large.  Are they performance critical 
> > > enough
> > > that they need to stay as inline code, or should they be moved to helpers 
> > > and
> > > share code with cpu_read/write_xer?
> > 
> > Just to boot to login prompt, these are the numbers for gen_read/write_xer:
> > 
> > helper_myprint - rd_count 231103, wr_count 68897
> > 
> > And it keeps on incrementing, maybe scope of optimization here.
> 
> That's not very large considering the total number of instructions executed
> during a boot to prompt.
> 
> Thoughts, David?

Hm, I'm not clear if that's the number of executions, or the number of
translations.

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