From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932461Ab0AFRcb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:32:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932395Ab0AFRca (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:32:30 -0500 Received: from www84.your-server.de ([213.133.104.84]:36460 "EHLO www84.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932376Ab0AFRca (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:32:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] enhanced reimplemented of the kfifo API From: Stefani Seibold To: tytso@mit.edu Cc: linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <20100106170355.GB24604@thunk.org> References: <1262776358.29513.10.camel@wall-e> <20100106170355.GB24604@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:32:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1262799125.2214.5.camel@wall-e> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: stefani@seibold.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 12:03 -0500 schrieb tytso@mit.edu: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:12:38PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote: > > - Smaller footprint > > Have you measured how much smaller a full built kernel ends up being > with this patch? > I compared it which some modules. It is not extremely significant, only some bytes. But if you use real in place then you would get better results. I will send some values. Stay tuned ;-) > > The patch-set is against linux 2.6.33-rc2. This code is ready to merge :-) > > Please do! > > You weren't seriously suggesting merging such a large patch post -rc3, > were you? I assume you were requesting this be queued up for the next > merge window, right? Right, not for 2.6.33. I asked for 2.6.34. Stefani