On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:27:50 -0500 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > In this most drivers are still modular, just the often-used hotpaths > are built-in, right? This avoids extra TLB lookups? Whatever > happened to mapping modules into the extra space at the end of the > kernel's 2MB TLB entries, to get the same benefit? it's a lot more than that; it's also about boot speed; module loading is just slow by nature, and while it can be made a bit faster, fundamentally, avoiding it for common cases is just the better solution. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
