On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> 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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