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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: 64bit kernel is huge
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:36:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254368176.11564.85.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090928074503.GB16073@kryten>

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On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 17:45 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found at least one machine that wont boot 2.6.31-rc* with a 
> pseries_defconfig. If I move real-base from 0xc00000 to 0xd00000 it
> boots fine.
> 
> # size vmlinux
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 9812942	1982496	1105228	12900666	 c4d93a	vmlinux
> 
> Looks like we blow right through the 12MB mark. It desperately needs to eat
> less and lose weight.
> 
> Here are some of the problem areas:
> 
> 131072  lppaca
> 65536   paca
> 
> I think we've attacked these before, not sure if there is anything left
> we can trim.

Why can't we dynamically allocate all but one paca? I seem to recall
Mikey tried it but it didn't work?

And on !ISERIES we should be able to allocate the lppacas too I think,
the HV doesn't know about them until register_vpa().

cheers

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-01  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-28  7:45 64bit kernel is huge Anton Blanchard
2009-09-28  8:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-28  9:13   ` Michael Ellerman
2009-09-30  6:01 ` Michael Neuling
2009-09-30 20:30   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-01  5:06   ` Michael Neuling
2009-10-01  5:09     ` Michael Neuling
2009-09-30 13:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-01  3:36 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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