From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>, Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [RFD][PATCH] typhoon and core sample for folding away VLAN stuff
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:38:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604131138.59611.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443DA830.8030209@thedillows.org>
On Thursday 13 April 2006 04:24, Dave Dillow wrote:
> Regardless, I remain opposed to this particular instance of bloat
> busting. While both patches have improved in style, they remove a useful
> feature and make the code less clean, for no net gain.
What happened to non-modular build? "no net gain" is not true.
> > This kind of changes are important, because bloat creeps in byte by byte
> > of unused features. So I really appreciate your work here Denis.
>
> On SMP FC4, typhoon.ko has a text size of 68330, so you need to cut 2794
> bytes to see an actual difference in memory usage for a module. Non-SMP
> it is 67741, so there you only need to cut 2205 bytes to get a win.
This is silly. Should I go this route and try a dozen of different gcc
versions and "-O2 versus -Os" things to demonstrate that sometimes
it will matter?
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-13 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-07 13:28 [PATCH] deinline a few large functions in vlan code Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-07 20:25 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-10 5:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-10 5:45 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-10 14:16 ` [PATCH] deinline a few large functions in vlan code v2 Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-10 14:31 ` Auke Kok
2006-04-10 15:26 ` Dave Dillow
2006-04-11 7:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-11 8:02 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-11 9:49 ` Ingo Oeser
[not found] ` <200604111502.52302.vda@ilport.com.ua>
2006-04-11 13:17 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-12 19:32 ` [RFD][PATCH] typhoon and core sample for folding away VLAN stuff (was: Re: [PATCH] deinline a few large functions in vlan code v2) Ingo Oeser
2006-04-12 20:10 ` [RFD][PATCH] typhoon and core sample for folding away VLAN stuff Ben Greear
2006-04-12 20:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-12 20:51 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-13 1:24 ` Dave Dillow
2006-04-13 8:38 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2006-04-13 15:00 ` Dave Dillow
2006-04-11 13:59 ` [PATCH] deinline a few large functions in vlan code v2 Dave Dillow
2006-04-12 8:55 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-12 17:18 ` Dave Dillow
2006-04-13 6:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-13 14:59 ` Dave Dillow
2006-04-13 11:32 ` Ingo Oeser
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