12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
4:22 p.m.
On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:
The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not something I feel very strongly about though.
There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged because of regressions.
Arnd