Re: [PATCH 04/18] bpf: Add name to struct bpf_ksym

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:50 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:14:43PM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:04 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Adding name to 'struct bpf_ksym' object to carry the name
> > > of the symbol for bpf_prog, bpf_trampoline, bpf_dispatcher.
> > >
> > > The current benefit is that name is now generated only when
> > > the symbol is added to the list, so we don't need to generate
> > > it every time it's accessed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The patch looks good. But I wonder whether we want pay the cost of
> > extra 128 bytes per bpf program. Maybe make it a pointer and only
> > generate the string when it is first used?
>
> I thought 128 would not be that bad, also the code is quite
> simple because of that.. if that's really a concern I could
> make the changes, but that would probably mean changing the
> design

I guess this is OK. We can further optimize it if needed.

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>



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