Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:37:45 +0200 |
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On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> writes: > > > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Rationale: > >> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds > >> become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections. > >> > > > > afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any > > other distro... > > Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration > finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box. Could it be that the > linker uses enormous amounts of memory? I have 4GB so I wouldn't > immediately notice.
What binutils version do you use? Maybe that particular problem is finally fixed. Of course would still leave the other issues I listed.
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