Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756790AbZCJRuL (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:50:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752004AbZCJRt4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:49:56 -0400 Received: from zelda.netsplit.com ([87.194.19.211]:47777 "EHLO zelda.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753574AbZCJRtz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:49:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] *** SUBJECT HERE *** From: Scott James Remnant To: Jean Delvare Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20090310184624.4e28d18e@hyperion.delvare> References: <20090310184624.4e28d18e@hyperion.delvare> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-bxgtOn8YX5UoOSRCvrwP" Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:49:51 +0000 Message-Id: <1236707391.6339.3.camel@quest> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1298 Lines: 40 --=-bxgtOn8YX5UoOSRCvrwP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:46 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > I don't get how it could make any difference in terms of performance. > As far as I know, all the module aliases that come from the kernel are > assembled into /lib/modules/$version/modules.alias when the kernel is > installed, and that file must be processed by modprobe the exact same > way another configuration file would. Or am I missing something? >=20 With current modprobe those files are turned into a binary index that can be read and processed *much* faster. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-bxgtOn8YX5UoOSRCvrwP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkm2qD8ACgkQSnQiFMl4yK7sWgCeIRHU8le8OfJy2YqmhN1T848x MgQAnRzitLLP0f2+kTFiLyIfal8krbOG =LKji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bxgtOn8YX5UoOSRCvrwP-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/