Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:04:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:04:29 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:32922 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:04:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20021007.090233.107701780.davem@redhat.com> To: nico@cam.org Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, simon@baydel.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux? From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <20021007125755.A5381@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 684 Lines: 15 From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:05:16 -0400 (EDT) 2) Not inlining inb() and friend reduce the bloat but then you further impact performances on CPUs which are generally many order of magnitude slower than current desktop machines. I don't buy this one. You are saying that the overhead of a procedure call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to touch a device? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/