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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 13:30:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0A9D8D.4CC463A0@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C0A1105.18B76D64@mandrakesoft.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Results from 2.4.17-pre2 plus the attached patch:  1135 bytes saved in
> vmlinux, simply from making all the functions static.
> (*.orig is prior to my patch.  kernel is P2 SMP-based)
> > [jgarzik@rum linux-e2all]$ ls -l vmlinux* arch/i386/boot/bzImage*
> > -rw-r--r--    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   1030259 Dec  2 06:18 arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> > -rw-r--r--    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   1030263 Dec  2 06:04 arch/i386/boot/bzImage.orig
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   2814631 Dec  2 06:18 vmlinux*
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 jgarzik  jgarzik   2815766 Dec  2 06:04 vmlinux.orig*
> 

but, but, but...   That's on-disk size.

What does /usr/bin/size say?

And don't forget http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/inline.patch
which deletes 61 `inline's and save 12 kbytes.  We really, really
need to examine our use of inlines.  It's probable that we're
sloshing squigabytes of instructions across the external memory bus
quite unnecessarily.

-

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-02 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-02 11:31 PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 11:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-02 12:33   ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-02 13:00     ` PATCH 2.4.17.2: CONFIG_FINAL, make kernel smaller Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:07       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:03     ` PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:40       ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-02 13:47         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 13:53           ` Ingo Oeser
2001-12-02 16:14 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-02 16:44 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-02 17:42   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-02 21:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-12-02 21:35   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-03  2:53 ` Horst von Brand

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