Re: Slow loading big kernel module in 2.6 on PPC platform

[Wilson Li <yongshenglee@yahoo.com>]

--- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> 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 original module size on disk is around 3.3M bytes. Here's details
of size.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2025644  263244  213024 2501912  262d18 mrbig.ko

Thanks,
Wilson Li


	
		
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