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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>,
	Kimball Thurston <kimball@sgrail.com>,
	gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb and dlopen
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF991B1.50205@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011119163624.A25053@nevyn.them.org>

> 
> I'm absolutely sure.  Or at least, I was... when I tested this, it was
> an obvious win.  Now it is an obvious LOSS to turn on the cache.  I'm
> not sure why, so I'll have to investigate it later.  In 5.0.90-cvs it
> was a win and in current trunk it is a significant performance loss.
> 
> This is in the context of a linuxthreads application.  We do a
> ridiculous, staggering amount of memory transfer in order to debug a
> linuxthreads application, and parts of it are duplicated.

Hmm, In the context of threads, trying to use the insn/data cache is 
cheating :-)

The problem with threads is that GDB is constantly discarding its per 
thread information.  Only to immediatly turn around and ask that that 
same information be re-created.  GDB, when switching between threads, 
should retain that information in the the ``struct thread_info''.  Even 
register information could be cached on a per-thread basis.

See 
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/real-multi-arch/index.html#SEC37

enjoy,
Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-19 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <y3radyrjqf8.wl@paladin.sgrail.com>
2001-10-16 13:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-16 18:23   ` Kimball Thurston
     [not found]     ` <20011016213252.A8694@nevyn.them.org>
2001-10-16 19:03       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-16 20:04         ` Kimball Thurston
2001-10-16 20:17           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-16 22:08             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-16 22:19               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]                 ` <y3rzo6qx1ej.wl@paladin.sgrail.com>
2001-10-16 22:52                   ` Kimball Thurston
2001-10-17  8:07                 ` Mark Kettenis
2001-10-17  8:29                   ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-17 11:09                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-17 14:26                     ` Mark Kettenis
2001-10-17 14:34                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-17  8:54                 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-17 15:08                 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-10-17 15:57                   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-17 17:05                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-17 23:14                       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-17  8:42               ` Andrew Cagney
2001-10-17 11:15                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-17 12:09                   ` Kimball Thurston
2001-10-17 12:58                     ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-08  0:22                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-08  8:17                         ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-08  9:44                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-08 10:49                             ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-08 11:14                               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-08 16:17                                 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-10-16 22:25             ` Kimball Thurston
2001-10-16 15:05 ` H . J . Lu

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