From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751200AbWDMIj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:39:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964830AbWDMIj2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:39:28 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:35298 "HELO ilport.com.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964829AbWDMIj1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:39:27 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Dave Dillow Subject: Re: [RFD][PATCH] typhoon and core sample for folding away VLAN stuff Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:38:59 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Ingo Oeser , Ingo Oeser , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com References: <200604071628.30486.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200604122132.46113.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <443DA830.8030209@thedillows.org> In-Reply-To: <443DA830.8030209@thedillows.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604131138.59611.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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