From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, richard.brunner@amd.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:03:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030912180338.GC30584@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vfrxlxol.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:32:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The size of a minimal bzImage (the stuff you can't compile out) has
> increased by roughly 400KB since 1.0 200KB since 2.2 and 100KB since 2.4.
>
> So please pardon those of us who complain at things that can't be
> configured out. The x86 kernel is on the edge of becoming useless
> in some embedded scenarios because it is so fat.
>
> When we can compile out code, we can at least narrow down where the
> problems are.
>
> I have to agree with Jeff the LinuxBIOS stuff is crippled right now
> because of this.
>
> There may be better places to attack. But new code is what is up for
> examination and is easiest to fix.
Yes, but is there enough framework to make this reasonable?
Is config generic with its new semantics (different from the origional
author) good enough for this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-11 0:56 Update on AMD Athlon/Opteron/Athlon64 Prefetch Errata richard.brunner
2003-09-11 1:27 ` [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 1:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-11 1:47 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 14:26 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 14:58 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 15:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 20:08 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-11 19:56 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-11 20:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-11 21:29 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-11 21:38 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-12 17:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-12 17:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 17:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12 18:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 18:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12 18:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12 18:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12 19:07 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 19:05 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-12 19:30 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 19:58 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-12 20:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-15 0:15 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-14 23:51 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-14 23:49 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-14 23:47 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-15 1:02 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-09-15 2:08 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 3:55 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 7:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 12:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 13:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 18:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-12 18:03 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-09-11 13:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-11 14:01 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:14 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-11 14:29 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-11 14:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:28 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-11 14:32 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 20:14 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-11 16:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 17:05 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 17:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 17:39 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 18:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 3:43 Nakajima, Jun
2003-09-11 4:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] <uqD5.3BI.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-11 4:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 4:58 ` dada1
2003-09-11 5:11 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 5:58 ` dada1
2003-09-11 4:55 richard.brunner
2003-09-11 16:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-12 14:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-11 17:09 richard.brunner
2003-09-11 17:14 richard.brunner
2003-09-11 17:17 richard.brunner
2003-09-13 16:54 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-12 21:24 John Bradford
2003-09-15 6:32 John Bradford
2003-09-15 7:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 12:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 11:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 20:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-16 0:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 8:31 John Bradford
2003-09-15 8:32 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 20:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-15 9:39 John Bradford
2003-09-15 9:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 10:54 John Bradford
2003-09-15 10:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 13:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 18:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 11:46 John Bradford
2003-09-15 12:38 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 13:46 ` Chris Meadors
2003-09-15 14:00 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-16 15:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 15:24 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 12:28 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-15 18:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 11:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-15 12:43 John Bradford
2003-09-15 18:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 14:21 John Bradford
2003-09-15 16:21 richard.brunner
2003-09-15 19:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 11:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 13:30 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-16 13:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 15:25 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-16 16:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 17:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 17:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-18 7:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-18 14:05 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-18 15:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-18 17:34 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <200309150632.h8F6WnHb000589@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1063611650.2674.1.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-09-15 18:29 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-15 19:19 John Bradford
2003-09-15 19:34 John Bradford
2003-09-15 19:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 19:51 richard.brunner
2003-09-16 0:01 ` David Lang
2003-09-16 0:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 11:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 13:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 17:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-15 20:03 Nakajima, Jun
2003-09-15 20:20 Nakajima, Jun
2003-09-16 2:23 richard.brunner
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