Re: [bernie@develer.com: Kernel 2.6 size increase]

2 messages, 2 authors, 2003-07-23 · open the first message on its own page

Re: [bernie@develer.com: Kernel 2.6 size increase]

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2003-07-23 18:42:32

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:53:55PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
I think this is not only of interest fir the uClinux folks..
Sorry, this actually already Cc'ed lkml :)  Still the netdev folks
should read it, too.

Re: [bernie@develer.com: Kernel 2.6 size increase]

From: David S. Miller <hidden>
Date: 2003-07-23 18:46:23

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:55:04 +0100
Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:53:55PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
quoted
I think this is not only of interest fir the uClinux folks..
Sorry, this actually already Cc'ed lkml :)  Still the netdev folks
should read it, too.
Well, we gained some code and a little bit of data, but
the BSS was cut in half which I think deserves noticing :-)

Also, he should analyze the amount of code that actually
gets executed for various tasks, comparing 2.4.x to 2.5.x

I'd take a half-meg code size hit if it meant that all
the normal code paths got cut in half :-)
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