Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932590AbWBEDpF (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:45:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932595AbWBEDpE (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:45:04 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:36748 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932590AbWBEDpD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:45:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:44:45 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Paul Jackson cc: Pekka Enberg , christoph@lameter.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, manfred@colorfullife.com Subject: Re: [RFT/PATCH] slab: consolidate allocation paths In-Reply-To: <20060204180026.b68e9476.pj@sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <1139060024.8707.5.camel@localhost> <1139070369.21489.3.camel@localhost> <1139070779.21489.5.camel@localhost> <20060204180026.b68e9476.pj@sgi.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: 725 Lines: 17 On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Paul Jackson wrote: > 1) This patch increased the text size of mm/slab.o by 776 > bytes (ia64 sn2_defconfig gcc 3.3.3), which should be > justified. My naive expectation would have been that > such a source code consolidation patch would be text > size neutral, or close to it. Hmmm... Maybe its worth a retry with gcc 3.4 and 4.X? Note that the size increase may be much less on i386. The .o file includes descriptive material too... - 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/