From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: discuss@x86-64.org
Cc: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:37:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704201137.45799.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1x4pnba1fl.fsf@thrashbarg.mansr.com>
On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 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.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 11:54 Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 Andi Kleen
2007-04-19 14:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-04-19 16:59 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-20 8:35 ` Måns Rullgård
2007-04-20 9:37 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-20 17:24 ` [discuss] " Måns Rullgård
2007-04-19 17:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-04-19 20:10 ` David Miller
2007-04-20 1:21 ` Herbert Xu
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