From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linux-Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.4.17.2: CONFIG_FINAL, make kernel smaller
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 08:07:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0A2797.A232CE7B@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C0A1105.18B76D64@mandrakesoft.com> <25560.1007294074@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20011202133314.B717@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <3C0A2609.AB42C366@mandrakesoft.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The conversion of linux/kernel was surprising... I only changed two
> 'int' variables to KSTATIC. That implies to me that the majority of the
> space savings might simply come from the better packing created when
> compiling all the files into a single .o.
Note that this implies we can get some code size savings without marking
all the functions KSTATIC... simply compiling them together gets a gain,
although not one as big as is possible with all applicable functions
marked.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-02 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-02 11:31 PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 11:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-02 12:33 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-02 13:00 ` PATCH 2.4.17.2: CONFIG_FINAL, make kernel smaller Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:07 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-12-02 13:03 ` PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:40 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-02 13:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:53 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-02 16:14 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-02 16:44 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-02 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-02 21:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-03 2:53 ` Horst von Brand
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