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From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: PATCH][RFC][resend] CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should default to N
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:08:24 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1103212105490.15815@swampdragon.chaosbits.net> (raw)

I believe that the majority of systems we are built on want a -O2 compiled 
kernel. Optimizing for size (-Os) is mainly benneficial for embedded 
systems and systems with very small CPU caches (correct me if I'm wrong).
So it seems wrong to me that CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE defaults to 'y' and 
recommends saying 'Y' if unsure. I believe it should default to 'n' and 
recommend that if unsure. People who bennefit from -Os know who they are 
and can enable the option if needed/wanted - the majority shouldn't 
select this. Right?

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 Kconfig |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 56240e7..0d63dfa 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -903,12 +903,12 @@ endif
 
 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
 	bool "Optimize for size"
-	default y
+	default n
 	help
 	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
 	  resulting in a smaller kernel.
 
-	  If unsure, say Y.
+	  If unsure, say N.
 
 config SYSCTL
 	bool


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             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-21 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21 20:08 Jesper Juhl [this message]
2011-03-22  2:52 ` PATCH][RFC][resend] CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should default to N Steven Rostedt
2011-03-22  8:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-22  8:25   ` Jesper Juhl
2011-03-22 10:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-22 16:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-23 17:45       ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-23 21:14       ` Ingo Molnar

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