linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/9] Conditional Calls

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Message-ID: <p731wgxds85.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	31 May 2007 15:42:50 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] Conditional Calls - Hash Table

Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca> writes:

> Reimplementation of the cond calls which uses a hash table to hold the active
> cond_calls. It permits to first arm a cond_call and then load supplementary
> modules that contain this cond_call.

Hash table is probably overkill. This is a very very slow path operation.
Can you simplify the code? Just a linked list of all the condcall segments
should be enough  and then walk it.

-Andi
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