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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:37:56 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > > shrinks fs/select.o by eight bytes. (More than I expected). So it > > > does appear to be a space win, but a pretty slim one. > > > > there are 855 calls to these functions in the allyesconfig vmlinux i > > did, and i measured a combined size reduction of 34791 bytes. That > > averages to a 40 bytes win per call site. (on i386.) > > And more importantly it's a function that's called in slowpathes per > definition. So saving text sounds like a good idea, how minimal it > may be. > Well yes - as I said, it's a net win. But 31 bytes per callsite seems weird and makes one wonder what's going on. - 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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