* Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> wrote:
> Finally, note that it’s not as if the binary always becomes smaller.
> Overall, with the full patch-set it is slightly bigger. But still, that’s
> how it was supposed to be if gcc wasn’t doing things badly.
So what I cited was the changelog for the refcount patch, which according to
your
measurements reduced kernel image size.
For other patches where size grew I left that text intact.
And yes, in this particular case a slight increase in kernel size might
actually be
beneficial, as we get a lot more straight-line execution in exchange. So this is
not a show-stopper property as long as the bloat isn't large.
Thanks,
Ingo
