Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750920AbVL2TwE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:52:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbVL2TwE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:52:04 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([64.81.244.121]:62417 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750920AbVL2TwC (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:52:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:48:03 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linux-tiny@selenic.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysenter support optional Message-ID: <20051229194802.GA3356@waste.org> References: <20051228212402.GX3356@waste.org> <20051229084858.GA31412@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051229084858.GA31412@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 20 On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:48:58AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matt Mackall wrote: > > > This adds configurable sysenter support on x86. This saves about 5k on > > small systems. > > note that this also turns off vsyscalls. Right now vsyscalls are mostly > about sysenter support, but that's not fundamentally so. 4k of the 5k > savings come from the turn-off-vsyscalls portion. Yes, this patch would more properly be CONFIG_VSYSCALL. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/