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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>