From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:37:41 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Michal Marek Cc: Lucas De Marchi , Sam Ravnborg , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules Message-ID: <20111230153741.GA2167@redhat.com> References: <1325173819-26274-1-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> <20111229172101.GB4101@redhat.com> <4EFD913E.7010707@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4EFD913E.7010707@suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:23:58AM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: > On 29.12.2011 18:21, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:50:18PM -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > > Add target in Makefile to compress the module after it's installed. > > > Module-init-tools and libkmod can handle gzipped modules. > > > > > > This is not much useful for distributions because the package will gzip > > > the modules and call depmod in a install rule. > > > > It might actually be a worthwhile thing for distributions. > > > > For a Fedora kernel, gzipping modules saves around 80MB of diskspace per > > installed kernel. That the RPM is compressed is irrelevant, the on-disk > > footprint is more interesting, given that the bulk of the modules installed > > will never even be loaded. > > But it kills performance of the tools. How often do you run depmod ? If modprobe is a bottleneck, you have other problems. Dave