From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992635AbXDTIpK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:45:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992687AbXDTIpK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:45:10 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42135 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992635AbXDTIpI (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:45:08 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:35:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200704191354.52985.ak@suse.de> <46277C36.6030301@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: agrajag.inprovide.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.20 (Double Solitaire, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FYQYStSr3hbfZeaRcmck8I2p44A= Cc: discuss@x86-64.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven writes: > Andi Kleen wrote: >> Rationale: >> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds >> become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections. >> > > afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any > other distro... Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box. Could it be that the linker uses enormous amounts of memory? I have 4GB so I wouldn't immediately notice. -- Måns Rullgård mans@mansr.com