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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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