Re: [patch] Latency Tracer, voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc4-O6

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 06:22, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Interesting results.  One of the problems is kallsyms_lookup,
> > triggered by the printks:
> 
> yeah - kallsyms_lookup does a linear search over thousands of symbols. 
> Especially since /proc/latency_trace uses it too it would be worthwile
> to implement some sort of binary searching.
> 

Would it be easier to have a mode where the symbols are not resolved,
and would just require the traces to be postprocessed? 

Lee

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