Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:01:55 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: dcache_rcu [performance results] |
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> Well, on second thoughts I can't see why the path length for pwd > would make difference for kernel compilation - it uses relative > path and for path lookup, if the first character is not '/', then > lookup is done relative to current->fs->pwd. I will do some more > benchmarking on and verify.
Kernel compilation actually uses absolute pathnames e.g. for dependency checking. TOPDIR is also specified absolutely, so an include access likely uses an absolute pathname too.
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