Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <200307242227.16439.bernie@develer.com>,
Bernardo Innocenti  <bernie@develer.com> wrote:
| On Thursday 24 July 2003 00:27, Willy Tarreau wrote:
| 
| > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:07:15AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
| > >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
| > >  633028   37952  134260  805240   c4978 linux-2.4.x/linux-Os
| > >  819276   52460   78896  950632   e8168 linux-2.5.x/vmlinux-inline-Os
| > >  ^^^^^^
| > >        2.6 still needs a hard diet... :-/
| >
| > I did the same observation a few weeks ago on 2.5.74/gcc-2.95.3. I tried
| > to track down the responsible, to the point that I completely disabled
| > every driver, networking option and file-system, just to see, and got about
| > a 550 kB vmlinux compiled with -Os. 550 kB for nothing :-(
| 
| Some of the bigger 2.6 additions cannot be configured out.
| I wish sysfs and the different I/O schedulers could be removed.

Perhaps after 2.6.n is out and stable for a month or so someone could
look at the problem. Certainly the various io schedulers are good
candidates for being optional and/or modules. The problem is that the
parts which aren't needed aren't large, so you may not gain much.

Clearly you have to have *some* io scheduler, I'm not sure if sysfs is
optional in any meaningful way any more. I haven't tried running w/i
/proc in a few months, it didn't work when I did, but old kernels are
old news.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.