Re: [PATCH] Remove SMP ifdef from irq_desc

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Nov 16 2009 - 05:50:31 EST


On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:

> Remove the CONFIG_SMP ifdef from the irq_desc structure and consolidate
> initializers for the smp/non-smp cases.
>
> For the x86_32 case, this adds 4 bytes of text and 128 bytes of data.
> For the x86_64 case, this adds 15 bytes of text and 240 bytes of data.

Hmm, on ARM and PowerPC the increase of data is 4K and I expect it's
minimum the same on other architectures. Not sure if we should worry
about it, but it's definitely a significant number.

Thanks,

tglx



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