Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:55:10 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Slow loading big kernel module in 2.6 on PPC platform |
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Wilson Li wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to port several third party kernel modules from kernel > 2.4 to 2.6 on a ppc (MPC824x) platform. For small size of modules, it > works perfectly in 2.6. But there's one huge kernel module which size > is about 2.7M bytes (size reported by lsmod after insmod), and it > takes about 90 seconds to load this module before init_module starts. > I did not notice there's such obvious delay in 2.4 kernel.
How big is the module on disk? That is, what is the disk to memory transfer size. Really 2.7MB, or is there a lot of uninitialized storage? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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