On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:29:09PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > > > Because of that, we either have to move all the entry points to the > > mm/slab.h and rely heavily on the pre-processor, or include all .c files > > in here. > > Hmm... That is a bit of a radical solution. The global optimizations now > possible with the new gcc compiler include the ability to fold functions > across different linkable objects. Andi, is that usable for kernel builds? Yes, but you need a fairly large patchkit which is not mainline yet. https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc/tree/lto -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>