From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 02 May 2006 10:36:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:23970 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133408AbWEBJga (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 10:36:30 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k429aNgt004399; Tue, 2 May 2006 10:36:23 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k429aLwq004398; Tue, 2 May 2006 10:36:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:36:21 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: moreau francis Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Re : module allocation Message-ID: <20060502093621.GA4301@linux-mips.org> References: <20060428200307.GA17705@linux-mips.org> <20060502071949.44638.qmail@web25811.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060502071949.44638.qmail@web25811.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11262 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:19:49AM +0000, moreau francis wrote: > > There is another reason against putting modules into mapped space and > > that's the need for -mlong-calls which generates larger, less efficient > > code. > > BTW, I don't see why -mlong-calls wouldn't be needed for GFP module > allocation. Can you explain ? It assumes a low-memory system where the entire RAM resides within the range of a J/JAL instructions. Ralf