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From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: mark all device info struct with __initconst"
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:34:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f786d40a-dd3c-3a97-91c2-243d816cdc8d@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151721644127.26642.4145338653340788114@mail.alporthouse.com>


On 29/01/2018 09:00, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2018-01-29 08:33:46)
>> This reverts commit 5b54eddd3920e9f6f1a6d972454baf350cbae77e.
>>
>>   Conflicts:
>>          drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104805
>> Signed-off-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
> 
> Mea culpa, completely didn't realise post-module init loading was a
> thing.
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> 
> It's still on the low hanging fruit list for reducing our bloat. Ideas?
> i915_pcidata.ko? How far could we go with that, make all gen specific
> code a separate section and unload them after init?

There is one maybe easy win with DMI_MATCH business. It modpost was 
taught to handle string relocs, one could remove the hardcoded string 
storage of 4x79 bytes for every DMI_MATCH entry. We have one large-ish 
table which is not __initconst in intel_no_lvds, but I haven't looked at 
the rest of the kernel - if all other users are mostly __initconst then 
the saving wouldn't be that universally interesting.

One larger code re-org could be to move all genX prefixed functions into 
separate .kos and load them dynamically. But it is very difficult to 
estimate the saving given how much re-use we have. And the extraction 
would probably be quite messy.

Regards,

Tvrtko
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-29 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-29  8:33 [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: mark all device info struct with __initconst" Lionel Landwerlin
2018-01-29  8:53 ` ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for " Patchwork
2018-01-29  9:00 ` [PATCH] " Chris Wilson
2018-01-29 10:34   ` Tvrtko Ursulin [this message]
2018-01-29 10:44     ` Chris Wilson
2018-01-29  9:02 ` Chris Wilson
2018-01-29  9:27   ` Lionel Landwerlin
2018-01-29  9:57     ` Lukas Wunner
2018-01-29 10:00     ` Jani Nikula
2018-01-30  8:44       ` Jani Nikula
2018-01-31  2:15         ` Rodrigo Vivi
2018-01-31 17:02           ` Lionel Landwerlin
2018-01-29 10:32 ` ✗ Fi.CI.IGT: failure for " Patchwork

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