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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: pmarques@grupopie.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcasavan@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kallsyms data size reduction / lookup speedup
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:51:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825205113.GA7258@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093406686.412c0fde79d4f@webmail.grupopie.com>

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0100, pmarques@grupopie.com wrote:
> 
> This patch is an improvement over my first kallsyms speedup patch posted about 2
> weeks ago.

My origianl comment still hold.
Decoupling the compression and decompression part is not good.
Better keep them close to each other.

Why not put all symbols in an __init section, compress them during kernel boot
and then the original section get discarded.

After a quick browse of the code.
- Use spaces around '=' etc.

	Sam


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25  4:04 [PATCH] kallsyms data size reduction / lookup speedup pmarques
2004-08-25 17:39 ` Matt Mackall
2004-08-25 18:46   ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-25 18:58     ` Matt Mackall
2004-08-25 19:09       ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-25 19:29         ` viro
2004-08-25 23:40           ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-25 23:43             ` viro
2004-08-26  9:59               ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-26 10:26                 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-30 18:21                   ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-30 18:38                     ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-25 21:12         ` Matt Mackall
2004-08-25 23:50           ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-25 20:51 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-08-25 21:25   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-26  0:27   ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-26 11:01     ` Paulo Marques

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