Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Deinline large functions

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 18:24 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> Fastest existing Bluetooth standard's top speed is 2.4 MB/s.
>> It is way off from being CPU limited, no need to squeeze
>> last few cycles by excessive inlining.
>>
>> This patch delinlines the following functions:
>>
>> hci_conn_hash_lookup_handle: 345 bytes, 39 calls
>> hci_conn_hash_lookup_ba: 372 bytes, 36 calls
>> hci_conn_hash_lookup_le: 382 bytes, 8 calls
>> hci_conn_hash_lookup_state: 356 bytes, 3 calls
>> hci_lookup_le_connect: 378 bytes, 7 calls
>> hci_conn_drop: 186 bytes, 30 calls
>> hci_connect_cfm: 121 bytes, 15 calls
>> hci_disconn_cfm: 121 bytes, 2 calls
>> hci_auth_cfm: 156 bytes, 2 calls
>> hci_encrypt_cfm: 156 bytes, 3 calls
>>
>> Size reduction is about 40k:
>>
>>     text     data      bss       dec     hex filename
>> 95943139 20860256 35991552 152794947 91b7743 vmlinux_before
>> 95903714 20860256 35991552 152755522 91add42 vmlinux
>
> Hello Denys
>
> While removing unnecessary inlines is generally a
> good thing, for extremely low power embedded systems
> like a coin-battery operated bicycle computer or a
> heart rate monitor, this might cause a throughput
> reduction.

Todays CPUs can push several GB/s over, say, Ethernet.

BT is 2.4 MB/s, tops.
Therefore total CPU time spent preparing BT I/O must be
in the 0.1% ballpark. (Meaning, if we would have a magical
infinitely fast CPU, throughput would possibly increase
by about 0.1%). How much do you think this deinlining patch
can possibly hurt here?

> Can you please also show the size decrease when done
> with a defconfig with bluetooth support?
>
> And for these types of patches in general, please
> add a defconfig size reduction to the commit message.

Okay, will do in the future.

> This is an x86-64 defconfig with bluetooth with and
> without this patch:
>
> $ size vmlinux.defconfig.*
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 10214414        4313816 1097728 15625958         ee6ee6 vmlinux.defconfig.new
> 10224014        4313816 1097728 15635558         ee9466 vmlinux.defconfig.old
>
> ~10k total

Looks good, right?