From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx204.postini.com [74.125.245.204]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C7F36B0195 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:23:08 -0500 (EST) From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000 References: <1321634598-16859-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <20111212154015.GI3277@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20111212154015.GI3277@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112121622.04236.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Nazarewicz , Marek Szyprowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Kyungmin Park , Russell King , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Ankita Garg , Daniel Walker , Jesse Barker , Jonathan Corbet , Shariq Hasnain , Chunsang Jeong , Dave Hansen On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote: > The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so > overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the > vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not > something I feel very strongly about though. There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged because of regressions. Arnd -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org