Re: [RFT/PATCH] slab: consolidate allocation paths

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 22:44:04 EST


On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:

> 1) This patch increased the text size of mm/slab.o by 776
> bytes (ia64 sn2_defconfig gcc 3.3.3), which should be
> justified. My naive expectation would have been that
> such a source code consolidation patch would be text
> size neutral, or close to it.

Hmmm... Maybe its worth a retry with gcc 3.4 and 4.X? Note that the
size increase may be much less on i386. The .o file includes descriptive
material too...

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