Re: [PATCH] enhanced reimplemented of the kfifo API

From: Stefani Seibold
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 12:32:35 EST


Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 12:03 -0500 schrieb tytso@xxxxxxx:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:12:38PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > - Smaller footprint
>
> Have you measured how much smaller a full built kernel ends up being
> with this patch?
>

I compared it which some modules. It is not extremely significant, only
some bytes. But if you use real in place then you would get better
results. I will send some values. Stay tuned ;-)

> > The patch-set is against linux 2.6.33-rc2. This code is ready to merge :-)
> > Please do!
>
> You weren't seriously suggesting merging such a large patch post -rc3,
> were you? I assume you were requesting this be queued up for the next
> merge window, right?

Right, not for 2.6.33. I asked for 2.6.34.

Stefani


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