Re: [PATCH v7 05/24] mm: devmap: refactor 1-based refcounting for ZONE_DEVICE pages

From: John Hubbard
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 17:25:17 EST


On 11/21/19 8:59 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:57 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/21/19 12:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
So while this looks correct and I still really don't see the major
benefit of the new code organization, especially as it bloats all
put_page callers.

I'd love to see code size change stats for an allyesconfig on this
commit.


Right, I'm running that now, will post the results. (btw, if there is
a script and/or standard format I should use, I'm all ears. I'll dig
through lwn...)


Just run:

size vmlinux


Beautiful. I thought it would involve a lot more. Here's results:

linux.git (Linux 5.4-rc8+):
==============================================
text data bss dec hex filename
227578032 213267935 76877984 517723951 1edbd72f vmlinux


With patches 4 and 5 applied to linux.git:
==========================================
text data bss dec hex filename
229698560 213288379 76853408 519840347 1efc225b vmlinux


Analysis:
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This increased the size of text by 0.93%. Which is a measurable bloat, so
the inlining really is undesirable here, yes. I'll do it differently.

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA