Re: [PATCH 02/22] Do not sanity check order in the fast path

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:21 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > dave@kernel:~/work/mhp-build$ ../linux-2.6.git/scripts/bloat-o-meter
> > i386-numaq-sparse.{1,2}/vmlinux 
> > add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 9/16 up/down: 81/-99 (-18)
> > function                                     old     new   delta
> > st_int_ioctl                                2600    2624     +24
> > tcp_sendmsg                                 2153    2169     +16
> > diskstats_show                               739     753     +14
> > iov_shorten                                   49      58      +9
> > unmap_vmas                                  1653    1661      +8
> > sg_build_indirect                            449     455      +6
> > ahc_linux_biosparam                          251     253      +2
> > nlmclnt_call                                 557     558      +1
> > do_mount                                    1533    1534      +1
> 
> It doesn't make sense at all that text increased in size. Did you make clean
> between each .config change and patch application? Are you using distcc
> or anything else that might cause confusion? I found I had to eliminate
> distscc and clean after each patch application because sometimes
> net/ipv4/udp.c would sometimes generate different assembly when
> accessing struct zone. Not really sure what was going on there.

There's a ccache in there but no distcc.

I'll redo with clean builds.

-- Dave

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