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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:03:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1506074588.12311.37.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709220921350.2024@hadrien>

On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 09:23 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Colin King wrote:
> 
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > 
> > Don't populate const array ac_to_fifo on the stack in an inlined
> > function, instead make it static.  Makes the object code smaller
> > by over 800 bytes:
> > 
> >    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >  159029	  33154	   1216	 193399	  2f377	4965-mac.o
> > 
> >    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >  158122	  33250	   1216	 192588	  2f04c	4965-mac.o
> > 
> > (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)
> 
> Gcc 7 must be much more aggressive about inlining than gcc 4.  Here is the
> change that I got on this file:
> 
>      text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
> -   76346          1494     152   77992   130a8 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/4965-mac.o
> +   76298          1494     152   77944   13078 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/4965-mac.o
> decrease of 48

More likely different CONFIG options.

e.g. allyesconfig vs defconfig with wireless

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 22:56 [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Colin King
2017-09-22  6:00 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-22  7:23 ` Julia Lawall
2017-09-22 10:03   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-22 10:05     ` Colin Ian King
2017-09-22 10:06       ` Julia Lawall
2017-09-22 10:46         ` Joe Perches
2017-09-22 10:54           ` Julia Lawall
2017-09-22  9:56 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2017-09-22 10:32   ` Kalle Valo
2017-09-25  8:29 ` iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Kalle Valo

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