Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:03:56 -0800
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
To:     Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] objtool: reduce maximum memory usage
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 09:43:39PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 04:00:57PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > The processing of vmlinux.o with objtool is the most memory-intensive step
> > of a kernel build. By reducing the maximum memory usage here we can reduce
> > the maximum memory usage of the whole kernel build.
> > Therefore memory pressure on memory starved machines is relieved during
> > kernel builds and the build is faster as less swapping has to occur.
> 
> Friendly ping.
> 
> These patches can also applied one by one, the only dependency is from
> patch 5 to patch 4.

Thanks, I'll go ahead and take five of them now.

-- 
Josh