From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767035AbXDTJi3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:38:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767036AbXDTJi3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:38:29 -0400 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:34703 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767035AbXDTJi2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:38:28 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:37:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200704191354.52985.ak@suse.de> <46277C36.6030301@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704201137.45799.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -Andi