Re: [PATCH] Re: UNWIND_INFO slowdown in -mm1

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* Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:

> >in 2.6.18-mm1 we are seeing _really_ long delays in the unwind code. 
> >(full trace attached) On an Athlon64 3800+ CPU:
> 
> Below patch should help, can you try it out? Short of the linker 
> supporting building a binary lookup table at build time, it creates 
> one as soon as the bootmem allocator is usable (so you'll continue 
> using the linear lookup for the first [hopefully] few calls). The code 
> should be ready to utilize a build-time created table once a fixed 
> linker becomes available.

i tried this ontop of -git and it builds and boots fine, and the bootup 
speed problems seem to be gone. Thanks!

> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

	Ingo
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