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DateTue, 13 Sep 2005 22:35:11 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Create __kzalloc_gfp_kernel()
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> On an x86_64 allyesconfig kernel, I see the following size:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 24202272 7609162 1998512 33809946 203e61a ../kbuild-before/vmlinux
> 24201601 7609266 1998512 33809379 203e3e3 ../kbuild-after/vmlinux
>

It hardly seems worth it, really. Better savings would come from doing the
same trick to kmem_cache_alloc() then tweaking kmalloc().

There are probably any number of frequently-called functions which we could
hack around with..
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