From: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 03:45:59 +0800
> if the table is always fixed size with MAX_LINKS entries, why not use a > statically > allocated table straightforwardly? > > Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I made the explicit decision to dynamically allocate because many systems have limits on how large the kernel image can be and therefore the less we statically allocate huge tables (constant size or not) the better. Lockdep is the worst offender, for example, it's completely awful. It consumes 4MB of kernel BSS space when enabled on a 64-bit platform. Patch not applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
