Re: [PATCH][2.6] Completely out of line spinlocks / i386

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Okay, the results on 2.6.8-rc4 (COOL had a bit of porting, basically
>> dropping the hunks associated with spin_lock_flags_string or whatever
>> it is). Chose the .config largely to be vaguely deterministic, but had
>> to nuke the "System is too big" check in arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c.
>>               text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> mainline: 20708323        6603052 1878448 29189823        1bd66bf vmlinux
>> cool:     20619594        6588166 1878448 29086208        1bbd200 vmlinux
>> C-func:   19969264        6583128 1878384 28430776        1b1d1b8 vmlinux

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:12:55AM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Shit that's quite the variance, which compiler are you using?

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

It's the compiler on residue; you (zwane) should be able to log in and
take a closer look if need be.

-- wli