Re: Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:54:52PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I'm thinking about dropping the x86-64 CONFIG_REORDER for 2.6.22. 
> The function enabled -ffunction-sections and then tries to reorder
> the executable
> 
> While that's in theory a worthy goal to save TLB/icache, in practice it 
> didn't really work out.
> 
> Rationale:
>...
> So I'm planning to drop the option and arch/x86_64/kernel/functionlist
> 
> Comments?

Have there been any benchmarks showing performance improvements 
with -ffunction-sections?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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