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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 <Emilian.Medve@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: Module with 36K relocation entries
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Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
> 
> I have module with 36K relocation entries (I know, I know, how could
> that be...) and the count_relocs() function takes ~17 seconds to crunch
> through the relocation table from the .rela.text section. I don't think
> I can reduce the number of entries in the relocation table (can I?) so
> I'm thinking at improving the performance of count_relocs() (currently
> O(n^2)). Does anybody have a simpler idea? Does anyone have any
> constructive suggestion on how to improve the situation?

This seems to come up every few months.  There was a patch submitted
here:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-June/037641.html