----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Lokier" <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org>; "Linus Torvalds"
<torvalds@transmeta.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Hmm.. I tried to compile the kernel with -Os (gcc 2.96-98) and I just
got a
> > > ~1% smaller vmlinux and a ~3% smaller bzImage. Maybe the size
optimizations
> > > doesn't show on these files? Internal data structures that are much
bigger
> > > than "real" code?
> >
> > That doesn't tell us much unless you benchmark any speed
> > improvements/degradations noticed. Hidden in that 1% may be more
> > favorable I-cache usage, better register usage... who knows.
> >
> > It would also be interesting to compile key files like kernel/sched.c or
> > mm/vmscan.c in assembly using O2 and Os, and compare the output with
> > diff -u.
>
> It'd be good to know why it's not achieving the quoted 30% space saving
> that other compilers manage for normal code, unless it's myth of course.
>
So I compiled sched.c to assembly (note that I have the rml preempt patch
there too), and the results are pretty strange:
Diff between -O2 and -Os:
http://giron.wox.org/sched.s.diff
As you can see, not much size optimizing are done from -O2.
The C file:
http://giron.wox.org/sched.c
Command line:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -OX \
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -S sched.c
where -OX have been replaced by -O0 -O2 -O3 and -Os
The assembler files:
http://giron.wox.org/sched.s.o0
http://giron.wox.org/sched.s.o2
http://giron.wox.org/sched.s.o3
http://giron.wox.org/sched.s.os
The file created with -O0 (no optimization) is the biggest of all, even
bigger than -O3.
-O2 and -Os differ only about 1%
So either
a) -O2 does size optimization
b) -Os sucks at size optimization
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| Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
| MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science
| Umeå University, Sweden
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