Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add kallsyms_lookup() result cache | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:51:01 +1000 |
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Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote: > >> Are you saying your top reads /proc/kallsyms on each redisplay? >> That sounds completely wrong - it should only read the file once >> and cache it and then look the numbers it is reading from wchan >> in the cache. >> >> Doing the cache in the kernel is the wrong place. This should be fixed >> in user space. > > No way, because: > > 1. kernel modules may be loaded or unloaded at any time
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