From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:30:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC98DB3.1090008@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321831713.15493.87.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On 11/20/2011 03:28 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 15:26 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> If we're going to do this at build time, I would suggest using a
>> collisionless hash instead. The lookup time for those are O(1), but
>> they definitely need to be done at build time.
>
> Is the lookup time really an issue?
>
Probably not a big one (in most scenarios), but with better exception
handling it might stretch the usability of exceptions. The bigger thing
is that once you're doing a build-time special handler for this
*anyway*, you might as well drive the cost of the lookup to functionally
zero.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-20 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-18 19:37 [PATCH RFC 0/5] Speed booting by sorting exception tables at build time David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` David Daney
2011-11-20 23:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-20 23:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-21 18:25 ` David Daney
2011-11-21 18:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-21 19:16 ` David Daney
2011-11-21 20:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-21 20:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-20 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-20 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-20 23:28 ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-20 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-11-21 18:51 ` David Daney
2011-11-21 18:51 ` David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] extable: Skip sorting if sorted at build time David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] kbuild/extable: Hook up sortextable into the build system David Daney
2011-11-20 13:45 ` Michal Marek
2011-11-22 21:38 ` David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] MIPS: Select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] x86: " David Daney
2011-11-18 19:37 ` David Daney
2011-11-20 23:10 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] Speed booting by sorting exception tables at build time Mike Frysinger
2011-11-20 23:10 ` Mike Frysinger
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