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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller
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Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > I do not plan to submit this patch to Linus/Marcelo.
> >
> > This patch applies an obvious technique to the kernel:  increase the
> > amount of code compiled in a single compilation unit, to increase the
> > overall knowledge the compiler has of the code, to allow for better
> > optimization and dead code removal.  KDE does this, with definite
> > success, though they definitely are not the first to do this.
> >
> > Simply, all ext2 files are #include'd into a single file, ext2_all.c,
> > and all functions and data structures are declared static.
> >
> > This technique can be used in the kernel, userspace applications, and
> > userspace libraries to decrease icache footprint and overall size of
> > your applications.
> >
> > Results from 2.4.17-pre2 plus the attached patch:  1135 bytes saved in
> > vmlinux, simply from making all the functions static.
> > (*.orig is prior to my patch.  kernel is P2 SMP-based)
> > > [jgarzik@rum linux-e2all]$ ls -l vmlinux* arch/i386/boot/bzImage*
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   1030259 Dec  2 06:18 arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   1030263 Dec  2 06:04 arch/i386/boot/bzImage.orig
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   2814631 Dec  2 06:18 vmlinux*
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   2815766 Dec  2 06:04 vmlinux.orig*
> r
> 
> size vmlinux
> and
> size vmlinux.orig
> 
> would be a bit more telling whatever the reaons of the impact is.

easily done, on the latest CONFIG_FINAL patch posted to lkml:

[jgarzik@rum linux.test]$ size vmlinux.vanilla 
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1908047  274672  353340 2536059  26b27b vmlinux.vanilla

[jgarzik@rum linux.test]$ size vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1905136  273808  352860 2531804  26a1dc vmlinux

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