Re: tiny patch, reduces kernel memory usage (memory_save patch)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:55:11 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Max wrote:

> Ok, so I grabbed a 128Mb PentiumII 266MHz and tested on it.
>
> The results are:
> (still kernel compile, suggest something else and I'll try too)
>
> kernel: memory (code,reserved,data,init): compile time:
>
> stock 2.2.0-pre7 768k,404k,1744k,28k 5m 29s 75
> 2.2.0-pre7 + my patch 768k,404k,1488k,28k 5m 29s 25

Convinced (but note, I don't think it's an improvement, but it really
seems that the overhead is zero and we save some bit of memory at the same
time). Next arca patches will have map_nr killed too. Thanks Max.

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