From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: My god! 2.5 is big
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:36:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030702003612.GD3210@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F01FEB6.5010407@murphy.dk>
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:35:50PM +0200, Brian Murphy wrote:
> My gzip'ped 2.4 kernel is 250k smaller than 2.5 and it works.
> Perhaps I just need to remove some code... ;-)
Old saying - "software is like gas, it fills all available space" ;-)
The MIPS 2.5 is still in it's quite early stages; I suspect we can still
regain part of the extra size. More important than the pure kernel size
(users booting from flash throw your rotten vegies now ;-) is the in
memory size. The greatly reduced size of struct page for example will
result in a net gain of memory available for applications for systems of
more than about 48MB.
Ralf
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2003-07-01 21:35 My god! 2.5 is big Brian Murphy
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