Re: [PATCH] for_each_online_pgdat (take2) [1/5] definefor_each_online_pgdat

[Andrew Morton]

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:22:18 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:16:51 -0800
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Some of these things must generate a large amount of code - would you have
> > > time to look into uninlining them, see what impact that has on .text size?
> > 
> > Okay, I'll do soon on ia64.
> > 
> I compared inlined and out-of-lined vmlinux on ia64 NUMA config kernel.
> 
> 	inline		out-of-line
> .text   005c0680        005bf6a0
> 
> 005c0680 - 005bf6a0 = FE0 = 4Kbytes. 
> 
> Considering the usage of this loop,  above size looks big ;)

Yes, we inline too many things.  Still.

> I attaches a patch which makes pgdat_walk funcs out-of-line.

Looks fine to me.

> I'll rewrite this if necessary.
> (make this patch depends on some config or move the place of funcs...)

We wouldn't want a config option for it.

And the new mmzone.c probably makes sense too - I expect there are a few
related things (page_alloc.c) which could be moved there.
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