From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
zippel@linux-m68k.org, ak@suse.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:11:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511021711.16455.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511012203370.27915@g5.osdl.org>
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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 00:05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Anyway, it would be great to find ways to make big improvements. But
> > I think the most realistic way to shrink the kernel is the same way it
> > grows in the first place -- one small piece at a time.
>
> No, I think that's a lost cause.
>
> It doesn't grow by 700 bytes once in a while. It grows by much more, and
> much more often. And we can't fight it that way, that's just not going to
> work. Maybe have something that tracks individual object file sizes and
> shames people into not growing them..
nm --size-sort vmlinux
Old busybox size optimization trick. Running it on 2.6.14 "allnoconfig"
attached. Lots and lots of small symbols (sizes are in hex), with no really
big low-hanging fruit jumping out.
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-03 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 17:26 New (now current development process) Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-10-29 18:57 ` Tony Luck
2005-10-29 19:51 ` Russell King
2005-10-29 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-29 20:44 ` Akula2
2005-10-29 23:28 ` Greg KH
2005-10-29 22:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-29 22:37 ` Russell King
2005-10-30 19:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-30 21:43 ` Russell King
2005-10-30 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-30 22:45 ` Russell King
2005-10-30 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-30 23:17 ` Russell King
2005-10-31 0:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-31 0:16 ` Russell King
2005-10-31 1:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-31 2:41 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-31 6:34 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-10-31 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-31 23:58 ` Roman Zippel
2005-11-01 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-01 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-01 0:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-01 0:59 ` Grant Coady
2005-11-01 14:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-01 15:15 ` Nix
2005-11-01 15:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-02 5:01 ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-02 5:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-02 5:56 ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-02 6:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-02 6:15 ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-02 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-02 17:48 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-02 18:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-02 20:11 ` David Lang
2005-11-02 22:31 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-11-03 18:54 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-02 23:11 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-11-04 22:08 ` Tim Bird
2005-11-04 22:35 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-04 23:33 ` Tim Bird
2005-11-02 15:41 ` Andreas Kleen
2005-11-01 7:52 ` Russell King
2005-11-01 9:09 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-01 14:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-01 0:17 ` Roman Zippel
2005-11-01 0:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-10-31 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-31 5:05 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-31 8:47 ` Rogério Brito
2005-10-31 9:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-02 5:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-10-30 21:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-10-31 0:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-31 0:18 ` Al Viro
2005-10-31 3:14 ` Paul Jackson
2005-10-31 3:34 ` Al Viro
2005-10-31 6:17 ` Paul Jackson
2005-10-31 7:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-31 7:27 ` Al Viro
2005-10-31 8:19 ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-02 4:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-11-02 4:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-10-31 4:52 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-02 14:44 ` Andreas Kleen
2005-10-30 1:12 ` Tony Luck
2005-10-31 6:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-07 4:54 ` Eric Sandall
2005-11-07 16:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-11-07 17:11 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-11-07 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-07 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-07 20:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-07 18:25 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-30 0:37 ` Jesper Juhl
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