On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 21:40 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > We store the log in a binary format and then decode it at read time. > > What are the advantages of this compared to creating the human > readable text and saving a blob of text? With function tracing the impact to performance is tremendous. Just recording two long words is a 130% hit to performance. Now multiply that to recording strings. > > What does this "binary format" look like? Will it ever change? > Remember that we may reboot to a different kernel - so we have > to be really sure that the newer (or older) version can do the decode. Good question. -- Steve _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
