On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:37:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > As Dave said before, is the last path component sufficient? Or how > > about an inode number? > > Neither works, the profiler needs to find the file and read it. > > inode searching would be incredible expensive, How fast does it need to be? Actually analyzing the profile is something you only do once after everything's over, right? > unless the file system provided a "open-by-inode" primitive Well, I suppose there is open_by_handle_at. --b. > In normal operation you only have that event when starting up the > program and when each shared library gets mapped in. > > -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
