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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:23:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738frt0zr.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxXdc22dirnE49UbQP_2s2vLQpjQFL+NptuyK7Xry6c=g@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 28 May 2014 09:09:23 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> From a quick glance at the frame usage, some of it seems to be gcc
> being rather bad at stack allocation, but lots of it is just nasty
> spilling around the disgusting call-sites with tons or arguments. A
> _lot_ of the stack slots are marked as "%sfp" (which is gcc'ese for
> "spill frame pointer", afaik).

> Avoiding some inlining, and using a single flag value rather than the
> collection of "bool"s would probably help. But nothing really
> trivially obvious stands out.

One thing that may be worth playing around with gcc's
--param large-stack-frame and --param large-stack-frame-growth

This tells the inliner when to stop inlining when too much
stack would be used.

We use conserve stack I believe. So perhaps smaller values than 100
and 400 would make sense to try.

       -fconserve-stack
           Attempt to minimize stack usage.  The compiler attempts to
           use less stack space, even if that makes the program slower.
           This option
           implies setting the large-stack-frame parameter to 100 and
           the large-stack-frame-growth parameter to 400.


-Andi

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-30 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28  6:53 [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: print stack usage right before Oops Minchan Kim
2014-05-28  6:53 ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K Minchan Kim
2014-05-28  8:37   ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28  9:13     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 16:06       ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-28 21:55         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29  6:06         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-28  9:04   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29  1:09     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  2:44       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-29  4:11         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  2:47       ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-28  9:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-29 13:23     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-05-28 14:14   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-28 14:23     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-28 22:11       ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 22:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-28 23:17           ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 23:21             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-28 15:43   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-28 16:08     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-28 16:11       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-28 16:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 16:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 22:31     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 22:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  1:30         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29  1:58           ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29  2:51             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29 23:36             ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  0:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  0:20                 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  0:31                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  0:50                     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:24                       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  1:58                         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  2:13                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  6:21                         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  0:15               ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  2:12                 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  4:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-31  1:45                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  6:12                   ` Minchan Kim
2014-06-03 13:28                   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2014-06-03 19:04                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  2:42           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  5:14             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-29  6:01             ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:26               ` virtio ring cleanups, which save stack on older gcc Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 1/4] Hack: measure stack taken by vring from virtio_blk Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 15:39                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio_net: pass well-formed sg to virtqueue_add_inbuf() Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 10:07                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtio_ring: assume sgs are always well-formed Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 11:18                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 4/4] virtio_ring: unify direct/indirect code paths Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:52                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 11:05                     ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 11:33                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29 11:29                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-30  2:37                     ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:41                 ` virtio ring cleanups, which save stack on older gcc Minchan Kim
2014-05-29 10:39                   ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29 11:08                   ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 23:45                     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:06                       ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  6:56                       ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:26             ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K Dave Chinner
2014-05-29 15:24               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29 23:40                 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29 23:53                 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  0:06                   ` Dave Jones
2014-05-30  0:21                     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  0:29                       ` Dave Jones
2014-05-30  0:32                       ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:34                         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30 15:25                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-30 15:41                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30 15:52                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-30 16:06                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30 17:24                                   ` Dave Hansen
2014-05-30 18:12                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-30  9:48                 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-30 15:36                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-31  2:06             ` Jens Axboe
2014-06-02 22:59               ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-03 13:02               ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-29  3:46     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  4:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  5:10         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30 21:23     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-05-28 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: print stack usage right before Oops Steven Rostedt
2014-05-29  3:52   ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  3:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-29  3:49   ` Minchan Kim

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