Re: [patch 05/26] Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 6/18/07, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > Hmm, did you check kernel text size before and after this change?
> > Setting the __GFP_ZERO flag at every kzalloc call-site seems like a
> > bad idea.
> 
> Aah but most call-sites, of course, use constants such as GFP_KERNEL
> only which should be folded nicely by the compiler. So this probably
> doesn't have much impact. Would be nice if you'd check, though.

IA64

Before:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
10486815        4128471 3686044 18301330        1174192 vmlinux

After:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
10486335        4128439 3686044 18300818        1173f92 vmlinux

Saved ~500 bytes in text size.

x86_64:

Before:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3823932  333840  220484 4378256  42ce90 vmlinux

After

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3823716  333840  220484 4378040  42cdb8 vmlinux

200 bytes saved.

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