From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from server19320154104.serverpool.info ([193.201.54.104]:38003 "EHLO hauke-m.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755143Ab3JRPsz (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:48:55 -0400 Message-ID: <5261585F.8020000@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20131018_174857_575913_292201F1) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:48:47 +0200 From: Hauke Mehrtens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg , backports@vger.kernel.org CC: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [RFC] backports: replace netlink portid by semantic patch References: <1382110139-23344-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1382110139-23344-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/18/2013 05:28 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > From: Johannes Berg > > Introduce the infrastructure to apply semantic patches > and make use of it for the (frequently breaking) portid > patch for netlink. > > Unfortunately this is significantly slower: > > before: > real 0m14.312s > user 0m12.144s > sys 0m1.784s > > after: > real 0m25.932s > user 0m21.768s > sys 0m2.932s > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg There are two more patches doing the same thing for other subsystems, I hope we could also replace the patches with this semantic patch: patches/collateral-evolutions/nfc/01-netlink-portid/net_nfc_netlink.patch patches/collateral-evolutions/ieee802154/0001-netlink-portid/ieee802154.patch How fast would it be when one more semantic patch would be added would it increase in the same way? I am wondering if this is a constant increase or does it depend on the number of patches. Hauke