On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:41:17AM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 at 19:30:52 (+0200), Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I don't see any technical reason for making schedutil modular in the > > context of GKI other than to make the GKI image smaller, but I don't > > expect that to be significant enough. > > The fact that we can make the image smaller, and we give vendors one > less reason to not-want GKI _is_ desirable IMO. > > $ size vmlinux.* > text data bss dec hex filename > 19225963 9601976 491084 29319023 1bf5f6f vmlinux.after > 19230599 9603236 491084 29324919 1bf7677 vmlinux.before > > ^ that's with the series applied. 'before' means sugov is =y, and > 'after' is sugov =m. So modularizing saves just over 4K on text, and a > bit of data too. Is it significant? Maybe not. But it's quite likely > that those who don't use schedutil will find any unnecessary byte to be > one too many.
It's not significant at all, just always build it in, no one will notice it, it's just a page or two. Serial port drivers are way bigger :) thanks, greg k-h
