Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/7] Speed booting by sorting ORC unwind tables at build time

Ingo Molnar
2019-11-15T07:25:16Z

* Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I refactored the sortextable code and add ORC unwind tables sort
> support, for kernel boot speedup by sorting kernel tables at build time
> as much as possible.
>
> Followed Peter's suggestion, I put ORC tables sort into a separated
> thread makes these tables sort concurrently. That helps to avoid
> kernel's link time as possible.

Could you please also measure how much boot time this saves,
approximately, and how long it takes to do it at build time?

Thanks,

Ingo