Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:12:55 +1300 | From | Bill Currie <> | Subject | Re: memory_save patch |
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Max wrote: > So I came out with this patch, which, despite being tiny, > saves 4kb for every 2Mb of physical RAM. > On my 16Mb box this means the kernel uses 32kb less memory, > and on a typical 64Mb Intel you save 128kb. > It is not exactly little, considering that the `init' memory added in 2.1 > normally saves 20-40kb of memory.
Although I haven't tried this patch out, it *looks* like it will even speed the kernel up fractionally as you have changes several memory references to either a reg minus reg or reg minus const (I don't know the nature of `mem_map': array or pointer).
Bill -- Leave others their otherness.
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