Re: [PATCH] Create __kzalloc_gfp_kernel()

Roland Dreier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On an x86_64 allyesconfig kernel, I see the following size:
> 
>         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>      24202272 7609162 1998512 33809946 203e61a ../kbuild-before/vmlinux
>      24201601 7609266 1998512 33809379 203e3e3 ../kbuild-after/vmlinux
>

It hardly seems worth it, really.  Better savings would come from doing the
same trick to kmem_cache_alloc() then tweaking kmalloc().

There are probably any number of frequently-called functions which we could
hack around with..  
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