The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_REORDER Kconfig help strange sentence.
Date: 13 Mar 2007 00:56:05 +0100
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:56:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070312235605.GA14444@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173741484.10618.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:18:03AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> OK, this confused me:
> 
>         Function reordering (REORDER) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>         
>         This option enables the toolchain to reorder functions for a more 
>         optimal TLB usage. If you have pretty much any version of binutils, 
>         this can increase your kernel build time by roughly one minute.
>         
> "If you have pretty much any version of binutils"?  Huh?
> 
> You mean "This will slow your kernel build by about a minute"?

Yes. Lots of sections seem to trigger some quadratic behaviour in ld.

It might be fixed in some unreleased CVS version though (not 100% sure) 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12 23:18 CONFIG_REORDER Kconfig help strange sentence Rusty Russell
2007-03-12 23:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-13  6:37   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-16  1:34     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-17  8:54       ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-18  4:32         ` Randy Dunlap

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070312235605.GA14444@muc.de \
    --to=ak@muc.de \
    --cc=arjan@infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox