Hello Kay, > Libpci and its linear search through megabytes of text files for evey > new query is too inefficient, that we cannot afford to use it during > early bootup. It was the largest hit left in bootup profiling on > machines booting userspace in the sub-1-second range on common > machines. It was probably never meant to provide efficient queries, > but it's the reason we can never use it during early boot. I do not know what you are speaking about -- libpci definitely does not perform linear scans on pci.ids. It builds a hash table from pci.ids on the first query and and all subsequent queries are O(1) on average. Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
