Re: [PATCH] proc: faster /proc/*/status

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2016-08-07 at 10:44 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > It is so bloated that gcc needs to be asked to not screw up with stack
> > > > size.
> > > What happens when you drop all the noinlines for this? I assume
> > > this would alread make it faster. And now that we have bigger
> > > stacks we can likely tolerate it.
> > %pV recurses through these code paths.
> > I believe the maximum current recursion depth is 3.
> I assume 2 max would sufficient for all users in kernel.
> 
> And perhaps it would be better to get rid of "features" like this,
> and instead focus on more common cases.

It'd be a dubious trade-off in my opinion.

Overall code size has been reduced by hundreds of KB
by using %pV.