From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 02 Jul 2003 01:36:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from p508B6FF8.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.111.248]:45527 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 01:36:18 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h620aHDB003821; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:36:17 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h620aCXE003820; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:36:12 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:36:12 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Brian Murphy Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: My god! 2.5 is big Message-ID: <20030702003612.GD3210@linux-mips.org> References: <3F01FEB6.5010407@murphy.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F01FEB6.5010407@murphy.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2749 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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