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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcasavan@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kallsyms data size reduction / lookup speedup
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:29:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825192922.GH21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412CE3ED.5000803@grupopie.com>

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:09:33PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >...
> >
> >FYI, killing the seq_file stuff will likely prove unpopular. So you'll
> >want to do that in a separate patch. If it doesn't affect the way
> >you're handling compression, please repost your compression patch. I
> >have a few comments, but otherwise I think we should move forward with it.
> 
> I'm still not sure that the seq_file is the culprit, but doing
> a 10000 symbol decompression in a user space application takes
> about 340us, whereas doing a "time cat /proc/kallsyms > /dev/null"
> gives approx. 0.2s! (this is all on a Pentium4 2.8GHz)
> 
> *If* the seq_file is the culprit, then I don't think removing
> it (or improving it) will be unpopular.

If it really spends that much in seq_file, I bet anything that it got
*very* dumb iterator.  Which should be fixable...

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25  4:04 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 [this message]
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
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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