Re: PATCH 2.4.17.2: make ext2 smaller

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Sun, 02 Dec 2001 13:30:53 -0800


Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Results from 2.4.17-pre2 plus the attached patch: 1135 bytes saved in
> vmlinux, simply from making all the functions static.
> (*.orig is prior to my patch. kernel is P2 SMP-based)
> > [jgarzik@rum linux-e2all]$ ls -l vmlinux* arch/i386/boot/bzImage*
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 jgarzik jgarzik 1030259 Dec 2 06:18 arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 jgarzik jgarzik 1030263 Dec 2 06:04 arch/i386/boot/bzImage.orig
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jgarzik jgarzik 2814631 Dec 2 06:18 vmlinux*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jgarzik jgarzik 2815766 Dec 2 06:04 vmlinux.orig*
>

but, but, but... That's on-disk size.

What does /usr/bin/size say?

And don't forget http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/inline.patch
which deletes 61 `inline's and save 12 kbytes. We really, really
need to examine our use of inlines. It's probable that we're
sloshing squigabytes of instructions across the external memory bus
quite unnecessarily.

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