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SubjectRe: Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:54:52PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> I'm thinking about dropping the x86-64 CONFIG_REORDER for 2.6.22.
> The function enabled -ffunction-sections and then tries to reorder
> the executable
>
> While that's in theory a worthy goal to save TLB/icache, in practice it
> didn't really work out.
>
> Rationale:
>...
> So I'm planning to drop the option and arch/x86_64/kernel/functionlist
>
> Comments?

Have there been any benchmarks showing performance improvements
with -ffunction-sections?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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