linux-kernel - Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG

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Message-Id: <200704201137.45799.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:37:45 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	discuss@...-64.org
Cc:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22

On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> writes:
> 
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Rationale:
> >> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds
> >> become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections.
> >>
> >
> > afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any
> > other distro...
> 
> Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration
> finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box.  Could it be that the
> linker uses enormous amounts of memory?  I have 4GB so I wouldn't
> immediately notice.

What binutils version do you use? Maybe that particular problem is finally fixed.
Of course would still leave the other issues I listed.

-Andi
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