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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 01/10] rcu: Make CONFIG_SRCU unconditionally enabled
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
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On 08.08.2018 19:23, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> On 08.08.2018 19:13, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 01:17:44PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>> On 08.08.2018 10:20, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>> On Tue 07-08-18 18:37:36, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>>>> This patch kills all CONFIG_SRCU defines and
>>>>> the code under !CONFIG_SRCU.
>>>>
>>>> The last time somebody tried to do this there was a pushback due to
>>>> kernel tinyfication. So this should really give some numbers about the
>>>> code size increase. Also why can't we make this depend on MMU. Is
>>>> anybody else than the reclaim asking for unconditional SRCU usage?
>>>
>>> I don't know one. The size numbers (sparc64) are:
>>>
>>> $ size image.srcu.disabled 
>>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>> 5117546	8030506	1968104	15116156	 e6a77c	image.srcu.disabled
>>> $ size image.srcu.enabled
>>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>> 5126175	8064346	1968104	15158625	 e74d61	image.srcu.enabled
>>> The difference is: 15158625-15116156 = 42469 ~41Kb
>>
>> 41k is a *substantial* size increase. However, can you compare
>> tinyconfig with and without this patch? That may have a smaller change.
> 
> $ size image.srcu.disabled
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 1105900	 195456	  63232	1364588	 14d26c	image.srcu.disabled
> 
> $ size image.srcu.enabled
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 1106960	 195528	  63232	1365720	 14d6d8	image.srcu.enabled
> 
> 1365720-1364588 = 1132 ~ 1Kb
 
1Kb is not huge size. It looks as not a big price for writing generic code
for only case (now some places have CONFIG_SRCU and !CONFIG_SRCU variants,
e.g. drivers/base/core.c). What do you think?