Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20031015130614.GI765@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Well, unless it's an interrupts-safe critical section that's hurting,
> you could take profiles, provided you have enough RAM for the profile
> buffer (which appears to be large). You could easily do a quick hack
> to steal the profile buffer from e820 regions not otherwise used for
> RAM (i.e. unused because you did mem=) to handle that for a slow cpu
> with more RAM than 8MB.
> 

Or just reduce mem= by enough less that you gain the profile buffer
back.

	-hpa
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