Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5] speedup kallsyms_lookup | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 10 Jan 2003 12:15:17 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:34, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Indeed! I think that was Andi volunteering :-} > But we should let rml defend his wchan.
Well, of course I want to keep it - but I am biased :)
I think its a simple export that gives us a neat feature. Additionally, from the procps perspective, it saves us from having to parse System.map for each process. In fact, it means we do not need a System.map at all for any procps functionality.
I guess Linus at least mildly liked it too, since he merged it.
But if its such a performance crippling item perhaps it does need to be removed (or somehow restricted).
I do agree that, if possible, wchan should be kept simple... so, is everyone else for the removal of /proc/pid/wchan ? :-(
Robert Love
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