Hi Luc, On 13 August 2017 at 14:10, Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar > <mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am merging and testing this in my repository. I notice that after >> applying the changes related to killing of BBs - there is a >> significant slow down in Sparse. >> >> Before the merge: >> >> real: 4.3 minutes >> user: 4.1 minutes >> >> After the merge: >> >> real: 18.9 minutes >> user: 18.7 minutes >> >> I just noticed this and these are my initial tests. But I thought it >> worth letting you know. > > I very small slowdown is expected (and even it could have positive > effect too) but not at all something like this. > And what I (and I think Chris too) measured was indeed quite small. > > Care to send your code, I can see where the problem could be? > Yes apologies I should have mentioned the test case: https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/dmr_c/blob/master/tests/lcc/cq.c I am checking whether the slowdown is due to some other factor such as: a) Build options - I need to check whether my build is an optimized build or not. b) I am using function based ptrlist iterators - so that may be exacerbating the issue But still it would be interesting to know what your results are for this test case. Regards Dibyendu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html