[PATCH v3 5/6] powerpc/64: Add support for out-of-line static calls

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 7 08:04:23 AEDT 2022


On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 08:50:31PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 06/10/2022 à 22:45, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> > I meant just an indicative code size number...  100 bytes, 100kB, 100MB,
> > or something like that :-)  And, on 64 bit, which is what the question
> > was about!
> 
> Ah, does the size really matters here ? I was thinking more in terms of 
> performance when I made the comment.

Other than some unused code there should not be much performance impact
at all from enabling modules when not needed, on 64 bit.  Security (in
depth) is a very different kettle of fish of course ;-)


Segher


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