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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: setup code_bytes - use mask to restrict it's size
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:25:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A4EDC5.3050104@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080202221211.GA6749@cvg>

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> This patch strips off 8 bytes from text section. Not a really
> big advantage (especially for __init section). It seems 8192
> bytes of disassembled code is rare used anyway.
> 
> before:
> 	text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 	9900     176      20   10096    2770 arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o.old
> after:
> 	text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 	9892     176      20   10088    2768 arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> If there is no benefit at all - just drop the patch.
> Any comments are welcome ;)

I don't think this is the behaviour we want (wrapping around); worse, if 
people enter a larger power of two they will get zero.

So NAK on this patch, IMO.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-02 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-02 22:12 [RFC] x86: setup code_bytes - use mask to restrict it's size Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-02 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-02 22:32   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-02 22:59     ` H. Peter Anvin

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