Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib/find_bit.c: uninline helper _find_next_bit()

From: Yury Norov
Date: Fri Jan 03 2020 - 19:11:27 EST


On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 01:46:07PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:28 -0800, Yury Norov wrote:
> > It saves 25% of .text for arm64, and more for BE architectures.
>
> This seems a rather misleading code size reduction description.
>
> Please detail the specific code sizes using "size lib/find_bit.o"
> before and after this change.

Before:
$ size lib/find_bit.o
text data bss dec hex filename
1012 56 0 1068 42c lib/find_bit.o

After:
$ size lib/find_bit.o
text data bss dec hex filename
776 56 0 832 340 lib/find_bit.o

> Also, _find_next_bit is used 3 times, perhaps any code size
> increase is appropriate given likely reduced run time.

Second patch of the series switches find_next_zero_bit_le()
and find_next_bit_le() to _find_next_bit(), so totally 5.

Yury