Re: [PATCH] perf probe: Add fastpath to do lookup by function name

From: Lin Ming
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 04:39:11 EST


On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:58 +0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The vmlinux file may have thousands of CUs.
> > We can lookup function name from .debug_pubnames section
> > to avoid the slow loop on CUs.
>
> Mind including before/after perf stat --repeat 10 results in the changelog, of
> an affected command which got faster?