Kyle McMartin (kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > MAKEDEV sources almost 500KB of config files on every invocation, and the > > inner loop is terribly inefficient. The second patch allows it to shrink > > the files to 55KB while expressing the same info and makes the inner loop > > more efficient. Depending on how many modprobe and MAKEDEV invocations > > are done on your box during bootup, this can or might not make meassurable > > difference. > > Definitely. The biggest win by far for MAKEDEV is profiling the often > hit devices, and prioritizing things. Dave Airlie moved a bunch of the > cciss and other almost never-seen devices to be sourced last and ended > up with a huge win. Well, the biggest win for MAKEDEV would be to not run it at all on boot - we shouldn't have to. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
