Re: [PATCH 0/2] bio iter improvements
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 03 2023 - 11:10:45 EST
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 04:28:08PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Can you post a code size comparism for the before and after cases?
>
> 6.2:
> kent@moria:~/linux$ size ktest-out/kernel_build.x86_64/vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 13234215 5355074 872448 19461737 128f669 ktest-out/kernel_build.x86_64/vmlinux
>
> With patches:
> kent@moria:~/linux$ size ktest-out/kernel_build.x86_64/vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 13234215 5355578 872448 19462241 128f861 ktest-out/kernel_build.x86_64/vmlinux
So we have a slightly larger binary size, and a slighly larger source
code size. What is the overall benefit of this conversion?