Re: [PATCH 2.5] speedup kallsyms_lookup

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:37:10 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> >> So the end-result of the discussion is, "What should really happen here?"
> >> and "What, if anything, do you want me to do?"
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:12:12PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > IMHO best would be to get rid of /proc/*/wchan and keep the kallsyms
> > lookup slow, simple and stupid.
>
> Slow, simple, and stupid == "wli, get the Hell out". I'm gone.

I don't really see a need for blazing fast lookup here, as long as it gets
done within a reasonable timeframe for common cases. Unless of course your
optimised version also saves space code wise.

Zwane

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