Re: [patch] Latency Tracer, voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc4-O6

Lee Revell
2004-08-13T18:57:04Z

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 06:22, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting results. One of the problems is kallsyms_lookup,
> > triggered by the printks:
>
> yeah - kallsyms_lookup does a linear search over thousands of symbols.
> Especially since /proc/latency_trace uses it too it would be worthwile
> to implement some sort of binary searching.
>

Would it be easier to have a mode where the symbols are not resolved,
and would just require the traces to be postprocessed?

Lee