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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: changhuaixin <changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com, luto@amacapital.net,
	michal.lkml@markovi.net, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	x86@kernel.org, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Build ORC fast lookup table in scripts/sorttable tool
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 23:10:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430041033.x7hggzh2lsbtc3u7@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430040654.mnkcfmj32tr6m3mg@treble>

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:06:58PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:32:17AM +0800, changhuaixin wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Apr 29, 2020, at 4:49 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:46:24PM +0800, Huaixin Chang wrote:
> > >> Move building of fast lookup table from boot to sorttable tool. This saves us
> > >> 6380us boot time on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2682 v4 @ 2.50GHz with cores.
> > > 
> > > And what does it add to the build time?
> > 
> > It takes a little more than 7ms to build fast lookup table in
> > sorttable on the same CPU. And it is on the critical path.
> 
> Thanks, I like it.  It will help make the in-kernel unwinder even
> simpler.  And it will enable unwinding from early boot.
> 
> Maybe someday we can move all the table sorting code into objtool, once
> we have objtool running on vmlinux.o.
> 
> I'll try to review the patches soon.

BTW, another cool feature would be for sorttable to run on modules
during the module linking phase.

-- 
Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29  6:46 [PATCH 0/2] Build ORC fast lookup table in scripts/sorttable tool Huaixin Chang
2020-04-29  6:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] scripts/sorttable: Build orc fast lookup table via sorttable tool Huaixin Chang
2020-04-29  6:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/unwind/orc: Remove unwind_init() from x86 boot Huaixin Chang
2020-04-29  8:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] Build ORC fast lookup table in scripts/sorttable tool Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-30  2:32   ` changhuaixin
2020-04-30  4:06     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30  4:10       ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2020-05-22 18:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-25  3:33   ` changhuaixin
     [not found]   ` <482837A8-E9D9-4229-B7B1-8E14403FB2AC@linux.alibaba.com>
2020-06-01 17:38     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-06-03 13:47       ` changhuaixin
2020-06-03 14:31       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:31         ` [PATCH 1/3] scripts/sorttable: Change section type of orc_lookup to SHT_PROGBITS Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:31         ` [PATCH 2/3] scripts/sorttable: Build orc fast lookup table via sorttable tool Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:31         ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/unwind/orc: Simplify unwind_init() for x86 boot Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:39       ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Build ORC fast lookup table in scripts/sorttable tool Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:39         ` [PATCH 1/3] scripts/sorttable: Change section type of orc_lookup to SHT_PROGBITS Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:39         ` [PATCH 2/3] scripts/sorttable: Build orc fast lookup table via sorttable tool Huaixin Chang
2020-06-03 14:39         ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/unwind/orc: Simplify unwind_init() for x86 boot Huaixin Chang
2020-06-29  2:14         ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Build ORC fast lookup table in scripts/sorttable tool changhuaixin

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