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    SubjectRe: Help text for config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
    > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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    > * Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
    >
    > > While [this] suggests that one should set it to y to generate smaller
    > > kernels. My own experience says that setting it to y DOES generate a
    > > smaller kernel so perhaps the main text should be changed to reflect
    > > this?
    >
    > sure, could you send a patch (with lkml Cc:-ed) that does this?

    Will do (I won't send it via Yahoo mail though because it will be mangled).

    > Also, would be nice if you sent with/without vmlinux size numbers for
    > the config you are using. Btw., do you have

    5463127 2008-10-11 19:51 vmlinux.no-opt
    5456152 2008-10-11 19:56 vmlinux.opt

    So about 6975 bytes smaller. This is a config which is vastly cut down, compiler was gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) on Fedora 8.

    > CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y enabled as well? That too shrinks the
    > kernel (which speeds it up as well on moder CPUs), quite visibly.

    In the past I've tried it out but it seemed to make my crude benchmark (glxgears) go slower...






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