Re: your mail

[Greg KH]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:55:25PM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> Dear Mr. Bird, Dear Mr. Kroah-Hartman,
> 
> Sorry for my very bad English.
> 
> 2011/5/18 Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> [...]
> > Alessio - do you have any timings you can share for the speedup?
> 
> You can find a little benchmark using ftrace at end of this email:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/5/341
> 
> > On 05/17/2011 04:22 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> >>> This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
> [...]
> >> Please explain why you make a change, not just who sponsored the change,
> >> that's not very interesting to developers.
> 
> You are right. I apologize.
> 
> This patch is a missing piece (not essential it is only a further little
> optimization) of this little patchset:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/16/48
> 
> Unfortunately I forgot to include this patch in the series (my first error)
> then I avoided explaining the changes because I had thought that those were
> already enough explained in the cover-letter of the patchset (my second error).
> 
> Sorry for my mistakes.
> 
> Is this better?
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] module: Use binary search in lookup_symbol()
> 
> The function is_exported() with its helper function lookup_symbol() are used to
> verify if a provided symbol is effectively exported by the kernel or by the
> modules. Now that both have their symbols sorted we can replace a linear search
> with a binary search which provide a considerably speed-up.
> 
> This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx>

Much better, I have no objection to this at all.

	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

Care to resend it without all the stuff above so someone (Rusty I guess)
can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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