On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:29:09PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > > > Because of that, we either have to move all the entry points to the > > mm/slab.h and rely heavily on the pre-processor, or include all .c files > > in here. > > Hmm... That is a bit of a radical solution. The global optimizations now > possible with the new gcc compiler include the ability to fold functions > across different linkable objects. Andi, is that usable for kernel builds?
Yes, but you need a fairly large patchkit which is not mainline yet. https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc/tree/lto -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/
