Re: pre2.3.27-2,3 devlist.h

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:00:43 +0100


On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 04:56:36PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> vmlinuz (2.3.26) 404452
> System.map 179179
> devlist.h 35xxx
> vmlinuz (2.3.27) 432670
> System.map 273899
> devlist.h 127703
>
> I'm just curious about the gains that justified this, so don't take it
> as a complaint.

You're not taking into account that most of this gain is __initdata

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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