"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This could be part of the unknown 2% performance regression with > db transaction processing benchmark. > > The four functions in the following patch use to be inline. They > are un-inlined since 2.6.7. > > We measured that by re-inline them back on 2.6.9, it improves performance > for db transaction processing benchmark, +0.2% (on real hardware :-) > > The cost is certainly larger kernel size, cost 928 bytes on x86, and > 2728 bytes on ia64. But certainly worth the money for enterprise > customer since they improve performance on enterprise workload.
Less that 1k on x86 versus >2k on ia64. No wonder those things have such big caches ;) > ... > Possible we can introduce them back? OK by me. - 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/
