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Message-ID: <251184.8738.qm@web38204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help text for config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
>
> * Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
>
> > While [this] suggests that one should set it to y to generate smaller
> > kernels. My own experience says that setting it to y DOES generate a
> > smaller kernel so perhaps the main text should be changed to reflect
> > this?
>
> sure, could you send a patch (with lkml Cc:-ed) that does this?
Will do (I won't send it via Yahoo mail though because it will be mangled).
> Also, would be nice if you sent with/without vmlinux size numbers for
> the config you are using. Btw., do you have
5463127 2008-10-11 19:51 vmlinux.no-opt
5456152 2008-10-11 19:56 vmlinux.opt
So about 6975 bytes smaller. This is a config which is vastly cut down, compiler was gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) on Fedora 8.
> CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y enabled as well? That too shrinks the
> kernel (which speeds it up as well on moder CPUs), quite visibly.
In the past I've tried it out but it seemed to make my crude benchmark (glxgears) go slower...
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