From 48fd11880b5ef04270be8a87d9a9a9ee2fdae338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Cernekee Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:32:14 +1030 Subject: [PATCH] module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables Looking at /proc/kallsyms, one starts to ponder whether all of the extra strtab-related complexity in module.c is worth the memory savings. Instead of making the add_kallsyms() loop even more complex, I tried the other route of deleting the strmap logic and naively copying each string into core_strtab with no consideration for consolidating duplicates. Performance on an "already exists" insmod of nvidia.ko (runs add_kallsyms() but does not actually initialize the module): Original scheme: 1.230s With naive copying: 0.058s Extra space used: 35k (of a 408k module). Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell LKML-Reference: <73defb5e4bca04a6431392cc341112b1@localhost> --- Reading git-format-patch failed