Re: [PATCH 0000/2297] [ANNOUNCE, RFC] "Fast Kernel Headers" Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux kernel's "Dependency Hell"

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Jan 03 2022 - 08:53:47 EST


On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 10:57:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> - As to testing & runtime behavior: while all of these patches are
> intended to be bug-free, I did find a couple of semi-bugs in the kernel
> where a specific order of headers guaranteed a particular code
> generation outcome - and if that header order was disturbed, the kernel
> would silently break and fail to boot ...

Looks like you are doing a lot of uninlining. Do you see any runtime
performance degradation with the patchset?

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Kirill A. Shutemov