[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV
Dave Airlie
airlied at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 04:51:57 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:52 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> MAKEDEV sources almost 500KB of config files on every invocation, and the
> inner loop is terribly inefficient. The second patch allows it to shrink
> the files to 55KB while expressing the same info and makes the inner loop
> more efficient. Depending on how many modprobe and MAKEDEV invocations
> are done on your box during bootup, this can or might not make meassurable
> difference.
>
I've just pushed MAKEDEV 3.23-7 into koji should be in rawhide soon.
MAKEDEV is now hosted on git.fedorahosted.org for anyone who cares.
Thanks Jakub.
Dave.
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