From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993108AbXDTR6Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:58:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993084AbXDTR6Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:58:25 -0400 Received: from agrajag.inprovide.com ([82.153.166.94]:58488 "EHLO mail.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993108AbXDTR6Y convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:58:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2021 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:58:24 EDT To: Andi Kleen Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 References: <200704191354.52985.ak@suse.de> <46277C36.6030301@linux.intel.com> <200704201137.45799.ak@suse.de> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:24:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200704201137.45799.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:37:45 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.20 (Double Solitaire, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen writes: > On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote: >> 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. > > What binutils version do you use? Maybe that particular problem is > finally fixed. Of course would still leave the other issues I > listed. I'm using the Gentoo default, which is 2.16.1 plus some patches. A quick scan of the patches suggests that perhaps this one has something to do with it: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-03/msg00847.html -- Måns Rullgård mans@mansr.com