pid namespace .text overhead

[sukadev at us.ibm.com]

Cedric Le Goater [clg at fr.ibm.com] wrote:
| FYI,
| 
| I just did a compile test on a 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 kernel with and without 
| the following patches on a x86_64 defconfig  (I also had to remove 
| CONFIG_IPV6 for some compile reason) :

Thats a good point.

We have been a bit liberal with "inline" given that lot of the code was
going to affect the "fast-path" clone().

Should we shoot for a time/space trade-off or can we make some inlines
conditional (i.e inline when not configured for say embedded linux) ?

Suka