On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:30:18 Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <ga...@kernel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> > This is an attempt at using dlmalloc v2.8.4.  Its a work in
> > progress, but
> > wanted to post to see what peoples feelings are on updating.  This
> > version
> > resolves all the various warnings we see w/gcc4.4 and the older
> > version of
> > dlmalloc however the trade of is the code size has increased.
> >
> > I still need to see if we need to hand relocate the global structs
> > or not.
> >
> > This diff is just of malloc.h to see how things are cfg, and of
> > dmalloc.src vs dmalloc.c to see the changes to it.
>
> Here are some size #'s
>
> [ga...@blarg u-boot-85xx]$ size u-boot
>     text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   392040        50536   41957  484533   764b5 u-boot
>   397660        49500   42397  489557   77855 u-boot          (new dlmalloc)
>
> [ga...@blarg u-boot-85xx]$ size common/dlmalloc.o
>     text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
>     4768         1056      56    5880    16f8 common/dlmalloc.o
>    10390           16     492   10898    2a92 common/dlmalloc.o       (new
> dlmalloc)

to say it has increased is an understatement.  i cant imagine the upstream 
code increasing that much.  perhaps we had trimmed/customized the 
implementation so as to shrink it ?

> old dlmalloc:
> [ga...@blarg u-boot-85xx]$ nm --size-sort common/dlmalloc.o

use the bloatcheck script to do a human readable compare between the two 
objects.  you can find it in the linux kernel.
-mike

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