From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create __kzalloc_gfp_kernel()
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:35:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050913223511.141e78c1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52acig2q37.fsf_-_@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> On an x86_64 allyesconfig kernel, I see the following size:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 24202272 7609162 1998512 33809946 203e61a ../kbuild-before/vmlinux
> 24201601 7609266 1998512 33809379 203e3e3 ../kbuild-after/vmlinux
>
It hardly seems worth it, really. Better savings would come from doing the
same trick to kmem_cache_alloc() then tweaking kmalloc().
There are probably any number of frequently-called functions which we could
hack around with..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 15:18 [PATCH] SELinux - convert to kzalloc James Morris
2005-09-13 19:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13 20:37 ` James Morris
2005-09-14 1:43 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-14 5:09 ` [PATCH] Create __kzalloc_gfp_kernel() Roland Dreier
2005-09-14 5:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-09-14 18:39 ` [PATCH] Move GFP_KERNEL use out of line to shrink text Roland Dreier
2005-09-15 5:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-15 11:42 ` Paulo Marques
2005-09-14 5:06 ` [PATCH] SELinux - convert to kzalloc Denis Vlasenko
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