On Wed, 4 May 2022 16:46:45 +0200 David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Benchmarks with a one million directory cpio archive extracted 20 times > > demonstrated: mean extraction time (s) std dev INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y > > 3.808 0.006 INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME unset 3.056 0.004 > > The benchmark table above has been collapsed, making it mostly > incomprehensible. Fat fingers, thanks, fixed. > > The above extraction times were measured using ftrace (initcall_finish - > > initcall_start) values for populate_rootfs() with initramfs_async > > disabled. > > > > [ddiss@xxxxxxx: rebase atop dir_entry.name flexible array member and drop separate initramfs_mtime.h header] > > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/424 > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-4-ddiss@xxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> > > The reordering of the tags above is also somewhat confusing - I added > the [ddiss@xxxxxxx: rebase atop ...] to reflect minor changes that I > made to the patch *after* Martin had provided his Reviewed-by tag. Alas, I don't think anyone would interpret it that way. I do think it would make sense to order these things chronologically, to provide an account of who-did-what-and-when. But I'm not aware of that presently being a convention with subsystem teams. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
