From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Wilson Li <yongshenglee@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Slow loading big kernel module in 2.6 on PPC platform
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:55:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433B032E.8090900@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050928192934.56067.qmail@web34114.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Wilson Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to port several third party kernel modules from kernel
> 2.4 to 2.6 on a ppc (MPC824x) platform. For small size of modules, it
> works perfectly in 2.6. But there's one huge kernel module which size
> is about 2.7M bytes (size reported by lsmod after insmod), and it
> takes about 90 seconds to load this module before init_module starts.
> I did not notice there's such obvious delay in 2.4 kernel.
How big is the module on disk? That is, what is the disk to memory
transfer size. Really 2.7MB, or is there a lot of uninitialized storage?
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 19:29 Slow loading big kernel module in 2.6 on PPC platform Wilson Li
2005-09-28 19:53 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-28 22:27 ` Wilson Li
2005-09-29 13:04 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-29 23:50 ` Wilson Li
2005-09-30 15:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-28 20:55 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-09-28 21:37 ` Wilson Li
2005-09-29 7:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-29 1:30 Samuel Masham
2005-09-29 23:46 ` Wilson Li
2005-09-30 0:58 ` Wilson Li
2005-09-30 2:57 ` Wilson Li
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