From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
'Holger Kiehl' <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Moore, Eric Dean" <emoore@lsil.com>
Subject: Re: Fusion-MPT much faster as module
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:28:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050322122801.GI3982@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111488742.7096.61.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 02:29 -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
>
> > Before:
> > /dev/sdc:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 92 MB in 3.03 seconds = 30.32 MB/sec
> >
> > After:
> > /dev/sdc:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.02 seconds = 57.61 MB/sec
>
>
> nice!
>
> More proof that #ifdef MODULE is considered harmful... how much of it is
> actually left in the kernel? Maybe we could kill it entirely from
> drivers/* (of course it has a limited place in include/*)
Too many...
And there are places where it's actually useful:
#if defined(CONFIG_FOO) || (defined(MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_FOO_MODULE))
is a good way to express that driver bar can use functionality of driver
foo if it's available.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 13:38 Fusion-MPT much faster as module Holger Kiehl
2005-03-21 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 7:32 ` Janne Pikkarainen
2005-03-22 8:31 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-03-22 10:29 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-22 10:29 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-22 10:42 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 10:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-22 12:28 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-03-22 12:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-22 19:36 ` Fusion-MPT much faster as module - ifdef MODULE considered harmful Bryan Henderson
2005-03-22 13:46 ` Fusion-MPT much faster as module Holger Kiehl
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2005-03-21 23:46 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-03-31 18:59 ` augustus
2005-03-31 20:22 ` Andrew Morton
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