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Message-ID: <yw1xr6qf7ycl.fsf@thrashbarg.mansr.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:24:42 +0100 From: Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com> To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> Cc: discuss@...-64.org, Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22 Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes: > 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. I'm using the Gentoo default, which is 2.16.1 plus some patches. A quick scan of the patches suggests that perhaps this one has something to do with it: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-03/msg00847.html -- Måns Rullgård mans@...sr.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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