64bit kernel is huge

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Thu Oct 1 15:06:10 EST 2009


> 2.6.28     8647080	1699460	 780472	11127012	a9c8e4
> 2.6.27     7461663	1505796	 774400	9741859		94a623

If you compile 28 with the 27 pseries_config, you lose most of this
1.2MB text bloat.

If we remove just FUNCTION_TRACER and STACK_TRACER from 28 we gain back
about 600K.

Mikey



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