2012/10/24 Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 10/24/2012 06:29 PM, 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? >> > > In general, it takes quite a lot of time to take all those optimizations > for granted. We still live a lot of time with multiple compiler versions > building distros, etc, for quite some time. > > I would expect the end result for anyone not using such a compiler to be > a sudden performance drop when using a new kernel. Not really pleasant. I agree with Glauber's opinion. And patch looks fine to me. -- 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>