Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jan 2023 03:54:42 +0000 | From | Thomas Weißschuh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] objtool: reduce maximum memory usage |
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 04:03:56PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 09:43:39PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 04:00:57PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > > > The processing of vmlinux.o with objtool is the most memory-intensive step > > > of a kernel build. By reducing the maximum memory usage here we can reduce > > > the maximum memory usage of the whole kernel build. > > > Therefore memory pressure on memory starved machines is relieved during > > > kernel builds and the build is faster as less swapping has to occur. > > > > Friendly ping. > > > > These patches can also applied one by one, the only dependency is from > > patch 5 to patch 4. > > Thanks, I'll go ahead and take five of them now.
Thanks.
I have another half-finished series that replaces the doubly-linked list_heads used by elf.h with a custom singly-linked list. This would save a few pointers per struct.
Do you think this is worth it?
Thomas
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