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From: Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, galak@kernel.crashing.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 01:14:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446C10B0.6060602@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060517224334.7d2bb5eb.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> This may sound like a dumb question, but aside from code bloat, what are 
>>  the performance issues involved in running 64-bit resources on 32-bit 
>>  systems?
> 
> Unmeasurably minor, I expect.

Noted, with thanks.

> 
> No sane software project would take on this (small) maintenance burden just
> to save 50-60 kbytes.  We would though.

I'm aware of that, and I'm not complaining.  :)  It's one of the things 
I love about this project.  It's a healthy insanity, enforced by the 
squeaking of the wheels.  Besides, code bloat is cumulative.

Matt

      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-18  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 17:28 [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:30 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6] kconfigurable resources driver pci changes Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:31   ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6] kconfigurable resources driver others changes Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:33     ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6] kconfigurable resources arch dependent changes (arch/[a-i]*) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:34       ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6] kconfigurable resources arch dependent changes (arch/[j-p]*) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:36         ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6] kconfigurable resources arch dependent changes (arch/[q-z]*) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 18:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes Greg KH
2006-05-05 18:35   ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-09 19:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-05-09 20:03   ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-18  5:19     ` Matthew Frost
2006-05-18  5:43       ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-18  6:14         ` Matthew Frost [this message]

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