From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757329Ab3K0PnH (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:43:07 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:45392 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757109Ab3K0PnD (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:43:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:42:55 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , LKML , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Robert Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/ Message-ID: <20131127154255.GJ32267@pd.tnic> References: <20131121120605.GC26009@pd.tnic> <20131121150524.GA24806@ghostprotocols.net> <20131121152804.GI26009@pd.tnic> <20131121173714.GD24806@ghostprotocols.net> <20131122122701.GA1480@gmail.com> <20131122135034.GA20146@nazgul.tnic> <20131122153910.GA15636@gmail.com> <20131122155425.GA15836@gmail.com> <20131123131243.GB24148@pd.tnic> <20131126180333.GC9958@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131126180333.GC9958@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:03:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Not necessarily, if the number goes up - obviously then we'd also want > to add some second directory structure to organize them into broad > categories or so. Right, topic libraries. That is starting to make more sense. :) > Unnecessarily longer build time. Ok. > If a tool uses just a handful of these (hopefully quickly increasing > number of) facilities then it should not be burdened by building it > all. Ok. This still hints at topic libraries as being the best alternative. > The preprocessor does nothing with the .a - eliminating extra stuff > from the .a is a link time step, and that means the whole .a will be > built first ... Ok, this is an argument I can get on board with. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --