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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Re : module allocation
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:36:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060502093621.GA4301@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060502071949.44638.qmail@web25811.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:19:49AM +0000, moreau francis wrote:

> > There is another reason against putting modules into mapped space and
> > that's the need for -mlong-calls which generates larger, less efficient
> > code.
> 
> BTW, I don't see why -mlong-calls wouldn't be needed for GFP module
> allocation. Can you explain ?

It assumes a low-memory system where the entire RAM resides within the
range of a J/JAL instructions.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-02  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-28 13:04 module allocation moreau francis
2006-04-28 20:03 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-05-02  7:19   ` Re : " moreau francis
2006-05-02  9:36     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-29  9:41 moreau francis
2006-04-29 20:39 ` Ralf Baechle

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