On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:52:17AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > 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 :) FYI, here is a tiny incremental fix for the patch I've posted earlier - Mandriva folks reported that with my patch depmod was upset when run on a tree with no modules at all. --- module-init-tools-3.4.1/depmod.c 2008-10-01 17:32:14.000000000 +0200 +++ module-init-tools-3.4.1/depmod.c 2008-10-07 11:49:29.000000000 +0200 @@ -651,6 +651,8 @@ d = d->next; } } + if (strings->dir0.len == -1) + strings->dir0.len = 0; no_dir0:; /* Assign the remaining up to 255 directory table entries, starting with most often used ones. */ Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
