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From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
Cc: uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:14:22 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307231507300.16939@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307232046.46990.bernie@develer.com>

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:

> Hello,
>
> code bloat can be very harmful on embedded targets, but it's
> generally inconvenient for any platform. I've measured the
> code increase between 2.4.21 and 2.6.0-test1 on a small
> kernel configuration for ColdFire:
>
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  640564   39152  134260  813976   c6b98 linux-2.4.x/linux
                   ^^^^^^
>  845924   51204   78896  976024   ee498 linux-2.5.x/vmlinux

[SNIPPED...]

It looks like a lot of data may have been initialized in the
newer kernel, i.e. int barf = 0; or struct vomit = {0,}.
If they just declared the static data, it would end up in
.bss which is allocated at run-time (and zeroed) and is
not in the kernel image.

You might want to check this out. There is 51204 - 39152 = 12,052
more data, but 134260 - 78896 = 55350 less bss.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-23 18:46 Kernel 2.6 size increase Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-23 19:14 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
2003-07-23 20:07   ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 21:47     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-07-23 19:32 ` [uClinux-dev] " Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-23 20:11   ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 20:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-23 20:22       ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 20:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-23 22:35           ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()? Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-23 22:37             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 23:00               ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-24  5:06                 ` David McCullough
2003-07-24 11:28                   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 12:04                     ` David McCullough
2003-07-24 14:48                       ` Alan Cox
2003-07-25 18:25                       ` bill davidsen
2003-07-24 15:30                     ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-07-24 19:37                       ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 19:51                         ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-07-24 21:20                           ` J.A. Magallon
2003-07-25  4:22                             ` Otto Solares
2003-07-25 14:38                               ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-07-28  3:19                                 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-28  8:14                                   ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau
2003-07-28  8:58                                     ` Miles Bader
2003-07-28  9:03                                       ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau
2003-07-23 21:57   ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-23 22:07     ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-23 22:27       ` Willy Tarreau
2003-07-23 22:34         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 20:27         ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-25 15:46           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-25 23:55             ` [PATCH] Make I/O schedulers optional (Was: Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase) Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-26  8:17               ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-26 12:40                 ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-26 14:07                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-07-26 23:42                     ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-26 23:41                       ` Jens Axboe
2003-07-28 17:13             ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase Nicolas Pitre
2003-07-28 23:02               ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-29  2:36                 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-08 13:25                 ` [uClinux-dev] " David Woodhouse
2003-08-08 14:37                   ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-08-08 14:43                     ` David Woodhouse
2003-07-25 18:16           ` bill davidsen
2003-07-29 22:29           ` Tom Rini
2003-07-29 22:48             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 23:06               ` Tom Rini
2003-07-30  2:07                 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-30 15:33                   ` Tom Rini
2003-07-31  1:49                     ` Miles Bader
2003-07-31  4:17                       ` Tom Rini
2003-07-31  5:03                         ` Miles Bader
2003-07-31 15:24                           ` Tom Rini
2003-07-30  2:49             ` [uClinux-dev] " Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-30 15:35               ` Tom Rini
2003-07-30 16:45                 ` [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase (PATCH) Bernardo Innocenti
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2003-07-31 16:31                     ` Kernel 2.6 size increase Ihar "Philips" Filipau
2003-07-31 16:43                       ` Tom Rini
2003-07-31 17:04                         ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau
2003-07-31 17:20                           ` Tom Rini
2003-07-31 18:02                             ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau

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