Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel'sexception table.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/20/2011 03:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 11:37 AM, David Daney wrote:
>> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
>> cycles sorting the exception table.
>>
> 
> If we're going to do this at build time, I would suggest using a
> collisionless hash instead.  The lookup time for those are O(1), but
> they definitely need to be done at build time.
> 

I have some code for generating these kinds of tables, they just need to
be hooked up.  I will dig it up later today or tomorrow.

	-hpa

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