Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Jesse Barnes
2006-01-05T23:27:16Z

On Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:11 pm, Matt Mackall wrote:
> I'm still not sure about in-source annotations for popularity. My
> suspicion is that it's just too workload-dependent, and a given
> author's workload will likely be biased towards their code.

To some extent that's true, but like Linus implied with his "5% work gets
us 80% there" I think there are a ton of obvious cases, e.g. kmalloc,
alloc_pages, interrupt handling, etc. that could be marked right away
and put into a frequently used section.

Jesse