Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [RFD][PATCH] typhoon and core sample for folding away VLAN stuff | Date | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:38:59 +0300 |
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On Thursday 13 April 2006 04:24, Dave Dillow wrote: > Regardless, I remain opposed to this particular instance of bloat > busting. While both patches have improved in style, they remove a useful > feature and make the code less clean, for no net gain.
What happened to non-modular build? "no net gain" is not true.
> > This kind of changes are important, because bloat creeps in byte by byte > > of unused features. So I really appreciate your work here Denis. > > On SMP FC4, typhoon.ko has a text size of 68330, so you need to cut 2794 > bytes to see an actual difference in memory usage for a module. Non-SMP > it is 67741, so there you only need to cut 2205 bytes to get a win.
This is silly. Should I go this route and try a dozen of different gcc versions and "-O2 versus -Os" things to demonstrate that sometimes it will matter? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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