udev performance

[Harald Hoyer]

Jakub Jelinek schrieb:
> With a prepared binary blob which would include a hash table for easy
> finding of dependencies for a module we could just open that, and only
> once.  If the binary blob starts with a magic number and then has
> st_ino/st_dev/st_ctime of both modules.dep and modules.aliases in the
> same dir, then you can easily keep the text files for handediting
> purposes and only use the binary blob if the text files haven't
> changed since the binary blob was recreated, and let the depmod or
> whatever creates the binary files also create the binary blob and
> have a mode in which it creates the blob from the text files rather
> than from whatever it found on disk.
> modules.dep searches just for the basenames of modules without extension
> and dir component, and ignores differences between - and _.  So, just create
> a hash function which handles - and _ the same and gives good results
> on the usual module names and stick a hash table (e.g. with chains)
> after the file header, then the chains would contain the actual module
> name's basename for module_equal comparison, full 32-bit hash and pointer
> to where the full strings are found in the string table (which should probably be
> compressed using a directory table).  module.aliases is harder, because
> it contains wildcards, so hash table isn't useful, but some kind of
> tree, where each node would contain a length, sorted prefixes of that
> length plus leaf nodes that contain wildcards at that point already and
> thus need to be tested all by fnmatch.  Searching would just in each node
> test all the wildcardish leaf nodes, if none matched binary search
> for what matches the prefix and recurse into that node.
> E.g. root node could have length of minimum of smallest alias name
> and smallest number of chars before first wildcard in any alias name
> (unless that is zero, otherwise the alias names starting with
> wildcard would go into the set needed to go through fnmatch at that level).
> 
> 	Jakub

udev linked with libmodprobe.so, reading the config only once and having the above search tables in memory, 
would be the fastest solution.
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