On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote: > The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so > overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the > vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not > something I feel very strongly about though. There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged because of regressions. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html