On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:01:55PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

Em Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:48:42AM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski escreveu:

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Hi, does anyone know why CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is enabled in fedora kernel? I thought that option was useful for embedded systems only.

IIRC because it makes the kernel faster :-)

The reduced icache pressure makes it a win. As a bonus some non-performance-sensitive code (like the acpi interpretor) gets a _lot_ smaller on-disk.

Dave