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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dlezcano@fr.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	containers@lists.osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Subject: Re: [net-2.6.24][patch 2/2] Dynamically allocate the loopback device
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:52:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EECCD5.5090601@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917101314.5d1673da@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:45:11 +0200
> dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote:
> 
>> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
>>
>> Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
>> simple network device, and it removes the special case
>> single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
>> making maintenance easier.
>>
> 
> What is before/after code and data size, does it make code smaller?

Interesting question, here are the results based on the same config file.

Without the patchset:
----------------------

vmlinux:
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2446606  188243  163840 2798689  2ab461 vmlinux

loopback.o
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     417    1040       8    1465     5b9 drivers/net/loopback.o


With the patchset:
------------------

vmlinux:
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2446853  187187  163840 2797880  2ab138 ./vmlinux

loopback.o
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     609       4      12     625     271 drivers/net/loopback.o



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-17 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-17 13:45 [net-2.6.24][patch 0/2] Dynamically allocate the loopback dlezcano
2007-09-17 13:45 ` [net-2.6.24][patch 1/2] Dynamically allocate the loopback device - mindless changes dlezcano
2007-09-17 13:45 ` [net-2.6.24][patch 2/2] Dynamically allocate the loopback device dlezcano
2007-09-17 17:13   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-17 18:52     ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
     [not found]       ` <46EECCD5.5090601-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-17 19:12         ` Peter Waskiewicz
2007-09-18  1:53           ` David Miller
2007-09-18  2:44             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26  2:24               ` David Miller
2007-09-26 21:40                 ` Eric W. Biederman

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