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| author | Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> | 2012-11-02 15:41:01 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-01-16 12:42:57 -0800 |
| commit | 3a55fb0d9fe8e2f4594329edd58c5fd6f35a99dd (patch) | |
| tree | 7198833c5bc3e7aac4b2a23282c2c4a09eae85d2 /COPYING | |
| parent | fbfc23ef905e41cbf621031a3d560a55a010dd54 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3a55fb0d9fe8e2f4594329edd58c5fd6f35a99dd.tar.bz2 | |
Tell the world we gave up on pushing CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
In commit 281dc5c5ec0f ("Give up on pushing CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE") we
already changed the actual default value, but the help-text still
suggested 'y'. Fix the help text too, for all the same reasons.
Sadly, -Os keeps on generating some very suboptimal code for certain
cases, to the point where any I$ miss upside is swamped by the downside.
The main ones are:
- using "rep movsb" for memcpy, even on CPU's where that is
horrendously bad for performance.
- not honoring branch prediction information, so any I$ footprint you
win from smaller code, you lose from less code density in the I$.
- using divide instructions when that is very expensive.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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