Re: [Patch 2/4] Basic reorder infrastructure

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 10:40:56 EST


On Monday 27 February 2006 16:27, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of
> functions based inside the vmlinux. The general idea is that it is possible
> to put all "common" functions into the first 2Mb of the code, so that they
> are covered by one TLB entry. This as opposed to the current situation where
> a typical vmlinux covers about 3.5Mb (on x86-64) and thus 2 TLB entries.

Looks good. I will apply that.

-Andi
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