From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.1-mm5 compile do not use shared extable code for
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:19:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16406.36741.510353.456578@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16406.10170.911012.262682@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:56:26 +1100, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> said:
Paul> David Mosberger writes:
>> How about the attached one? It will touch memory more when
>> moving an element down, but we're talking about exception tables
>> here, and I don't think module loading time would be affected in
>> any noticable fashion.
Paul> Hmmm... Stylistically I much prefer to pick up the new
Paul> element, move the others up and just drop the new element in
Paul> where it should go, rather than doing swap, swap, swap down
Paul> the list.
Sure, the latter can be done, too.
Paul> Also, I don't think there is enough code there to be worth the
Paul> bother of trying to abstract the generic routine so you can
Paul> plug in different compare and move-element routines. The
Paul> whole sort routine is only 16 lines of code, after all. Why
Paul> not just have an ia64-specific version of sort_extable?
Paul> That's what I thought you would do.
Because the Alpha needs exactly the same code.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 12:23 [patch] 2.6.1-mm5 compile do not use shared extable code for ia64 Jes Sorensen
2004-01-20 17:00 ` [patch] 2.6.1-mm5 compile do not use shared extable code for Andrew Morton
2004-01-24 3:00 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-24 10:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-26 23:33 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-27 8:11 ` [patch] 2.6.1-mm5 compile do not use shared extable code for ia64 Jes Sorensen
2004-01-27 17:39 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-27 8:56 ` [patch] 2.6.1-mm5 compile do not use shared extable code for Paul Mackerras
2004-01-27 16:19 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-01-27 23:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-28 6:06 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-27 17:54 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-21 18:43 ` [patch] 2.6.1-mm5 compile do not use shared extable code for ia64 David Mosberger
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