Poke, poke.

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 02:59:58PM -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > I know the -tiny tree was discontinued as a separate tree and the drive is to 
> > merge it all into the kernel.  How's that going?  Anything new we should be 
> > aware of, and particular low-hanging fruit coming up or that it might be good 
> > for us to look at improving?
> 
> Just FYI for people on this list.  CELF (particularly NEC) has been
> doing a bunch of configuration size testing of the Linux kernel.
> With a 2.6.16 kernel, they found that applying the outstanding
> (non-mainlined) Linux-tiny patches and turning on the associated
> config items now only gets you about 40K on an i386 kernel.
> 
> I'd be curious if others have similar experiences.
> 
> This is either really good (most of the important bits of linux-tiny
> are now mainlined) or bad (linux-tiny sucks).  I suspect it is
> the former. :-)

40K is a bit less than I remember, but it depends a fair amount on the
config. Quite a number of the linux-tiny patches recover from 1k to 4k
in my test configuration.

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