Re: [Patch] performance enhancement for simple_strtoul

Jamie Lokier
2000-12-28T05:45:24Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> > [about strtoul]
> > Perhaps I am mistaken but I'd expect it to be called what, ten times at
> > boot time, and a couple of times when X loads the MTRRs?
>
> On second thought, ps -auxl maybe stresses simple_strtoul a little
> bit. Not sure.

Nah. proc_pid_lookup does its own conversion from string to number, and
the rest are conversions from numbers to strings in sprintf.

-- Jamie