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    SubjectRe: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22
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    Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

    > 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.

    I'm using the Gentoo default, which is 2.16.1 plus some patches. A
    quick scan of the patches suggests that perhaps this one has something
    to do with it:
    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-03/msg00847.html

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    Måns Rullgård
    mans@mansr.com
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