Re: [PATCH v2] sched: Accelerate "pick_next_entity" under specialcondition

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michael Wang <wangyun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/27/2012 12:42 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> 
> > On 01/27/2012 09:22 AM, Michael Wang wrote:
> >> Hi, Ingo
> >>
> >> Thanks for your reply.
> >>
> >> I have try use "ls -l" to see the size of sched.o, but after applied the
> >> patch, it is still 1636.
> >>
> >> I have not use this method before, may be I use the wrong command...
> >>
> >> But I think the new code should be similar to the old one after compile,
> >> because we still have 3 condition check here.
> >>
> >> I suppose the new sched.o will be a little bigger, because one jump
> >> command and a label need to be added.
> >>
> > 
> > Try to see if `size` helps.
> 
> Hi, Cong
> 
> Thanks for your advise, but still, the size not changed.
> 
> And also I don't know whether the size can be some kind of 
> proof to confirm the performance improvement in this case...

You could disassemble the .o file via objdump -d and run diff on 
it - is there any change in the code generated by GCC?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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