On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:20 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:52:15PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Given the recent 5sec boot efforts http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ > > and Mandriva follow-ups on that http://lwn.net/Articles/300873/, > > I thought I'd share my modprobe and MAKEDEV speedup patches with > > a wider community so folks can experiment with them, especially seeing > > Mandriva folks playing with turning modprobe into a daemon because of its > > slowness. > Have you tested things on a big endian machine? In any case, this looks > really good. Hopefully Jon will apply this upstream soon so we can get > it in F10. So I've added an alternative patch from Alan Jenkins to the current git and in rawhide today, also using a binary index (there's no version info embedded right now however that is about to be fixed in a later patch). I think my plan right now is to profile this against Jakub's patch and pick the winner. So there might be a few more changes this week :) Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
