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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:34:50 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com> To: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Michal Marek" <mmarek@...e.cz>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] no need to align .modinfo strings >>> On 06.09.10 at 10:19, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:54:40 pm Jan Beulich wrote: >> Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to >> save some space. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com> > > Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> > > The real question is: why is gcc aligning these? Should it be aligning A performance consideration for those cases where strings are being used a lot, I believe. > any string literals at all? If so, should we look for other such wastes > of space? I think we should, at least I'm keeping an eye open to spot any such. Jan -- 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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