On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:26:24PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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. > Agreed. ;-) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
