Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 5 authors, 2011-11-22

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Date: 2011-11-20 23:26:31
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On 11/18/2011 11:37 AM, David Daney wrote:
From: David Daney <redacted>

Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
cycles sorting the exception table.
If we're going to do this at build time, I would suggest using a
collisionless hash instead.  The lookup time for those are O(1), but
they definitely need to be done at build time.

	-hpa
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