Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 May 1999 04:14:37 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: XFS and journalling filesystems |
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On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 06:48:19AM -0400, Vilain, Sam wrote:
> As a dangerous rule of thumb, LOC ~ code size. More code size = bigger > kernel = less (buffercache|user memory). <flamesuit>This is a fear of Linux > kernel developers - Linux ending up as slow as say, Solaris on low end > machines (even if it kicks butt on 6144-way SMP).</flamesuit>
Nobody builds 6144-way SMPs, not Sun nor somebody else. The SMP paradigm just doesn't scale that far.
> Numbers are often good in arguments like this. ie, how big is the ext2fs > module under Linux/MIPS, compared to the xfs module under Irix? [Comparing > with Linux/i386 should probably be avoided, because i386 code is (generally) > more instructions/word, even if you need a few extra million transistors to > decode it :)].
[ralf@lappi linux-sgi]$ mips-linux-size fs/ext2/ext2.o text data bss dec hex filename 60080 496 1024 61600 f0a0 fs/ext2/ext2.o [ralf@lappi linux-sgi]$
The archive /usr/cpu/sysgen/IP22boot/xfs.a of IRIX 6.2 has in total a .text size of 274864. That's 32 bit code btw.
Ralf
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