From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/4] Basic reorder infrastructure
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:41:37 +0100
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On Monday 27 February 2006 16:27, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of
> functions based inside the vmlinux. The general idea is that it is possible
> to put all "common" functions into the first 2Mb of the code, so that they
> are covered by one TLB entry. This as opposed to the current situation where
> a typical vmlinux covers about 3.5Mb (on x86-64) and thus 2 TLB entries.

Looks good. I will apply that.

-Andi
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