64bit kernel is huge

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Thu Oct 1 15:09:57 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.

EXT4 also adds about 200K, between the 27 and 28 configs.

Mikey


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