Re: [RFC v11][PATCH 05/13] Dump memory address space

[Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 06:10 -0500, Oren Laadan wrote:
>>>> +    for (i = pgarr->nr_used; i--; /**/)
>>>> +        page_cache_release(pgarr->pages[i]);
>>> This is sorta hard to read (and non-intuitive).  Is it easier to do:
>>>
>>> for (i = 0; i < pgarr->nr_used; i++)
>>>     page_cache_release(pgarr->pages[i]);
>>>
>>> It shouldn't matter what order you release the pages in..
>> Was meant to avoid a dereference to 'pgarr->nr_used' in the comparison.
>> (though I doubt if the performance impact is at all visible)
> 
> That's a bit to aggressive an optimization.  You two piqued my
> curiosity, so I tried a little experiment with this .c file:
> 
> extern void bar(int i);
> 
> struct s {
>         int *array;
>         int size;
> };
> 
> extern struct s *s;
> void foo(void)
> {
>         int i;
> #ifdef OREN
>         for (i = s->size; i--; )
> #else
>         for (i = 0; i < s->size; i++)
> #endif
>                 bar(s->array[i]);
> }
> 
> for O in "" -O -O1 -O2 -O3 -Os; do
> 	gcc -DOREN $O -c f1.c -o oren.o;
> 	gcc $O -c f1.c -o mike.o;
> 	echo -n Oren:; objdump -d oren.o | grep ret;
> 	echo -n Mike:; objdump -d mike.o | grep ret;
> done

For what it's worth, the idea was to improve time... (not code length).
I changed the code anyway (in response to another comment).

Oren.

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