> This means that not including the VT subsystem resulted in a 128k > reduction in runtime footprint, and having only half the number of VT's > resulted in a 52k reduction. Assuming a linear correlation between the > number of VT's and the runtime footprint of the subsystem, that means > the subsystem itself incurs 26k of overhead, and each VT incurs > approximately 1.6k of overhead.
Doesn't seem an unreasonable value - so yes you've made an argument for dynamically allocating the vt structures when they are first referenced. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/