Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751519AbVKBFnq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:43:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751520AbVKBFnq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:43:46 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55965 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751516AbVKBFnq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:43:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:43:28 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Roland Dreier cc: Andrew Morton , zippel@linux-m68k.org, ak@suse.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New (now current development process) In-Reply-To: <52y847abjm.fsf@cisco.com> Message-ID: References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <20051031001647.GK2846@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051030172247.743d77fa.akpm@osdl.org> <200510310341.02897.ak@suse.de> <20051031160557.7540cd6a.akpm@osdl.org> <20051031163408.41a266f3.akpm@osdl.org> <52y847abjm.fsf@cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 22 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: > > On an x86_64 allnoconfig kernel, I see the following sizes: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 795683 197356 116384 1109423 10edaf vmlinux-before > 794894 197420 116384 1108698 10eada vmlinux-after I really don't see the point of shaving less than a kB with ugly calling convention magic, when switching to -Os can save us much more, and when the networking code is several hundred kB. If we start doing size optimizations, we need to think big. Linus - 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/