Re: Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22

[Måns Rullgård]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Rationale:
>> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds
>> become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections.
>>
>
> afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any
> other distro...

Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration
finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box.  Could it be that the
linker uses enormous amounts of memory?  I have 4GB so I wouldn't
immediately notice.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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