Ingo Molnar
2018-Jul-15 21:54 UTC
[kbuild ack?] Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] x86: macrofying inline asm for better compilation
* Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com> wrote:> > I ran some limited number of benchmarks, and in general the performance > > impact is not very notable. You can still see >10 cycles shaved off some > > syscalls that manipulate page-tables (e.g., mprotect()), in which > > paravirt caused many functions not to be inlined. In addition this > > patch-set can prevent issues such as [1], and improves code readability > > and maintainability.Ok, that's good enough as a benefit, I suppose.> > Nadav Amit (9): > > Makefile: Prepare for using macros for inline asmThis non-trivial kbuild patch needs an Acked-by from Masahiro. Thanks, Ingo