Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:37:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Wilson Li <> | Subject | Re: Slow loading big kernel module in 2.6 on PPC platform |
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--- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> 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 original module size on disk is around 3.3M bytes. Here's details of size.
text data bss dec hex filename 2025644 263244 213024 2501912 262d18 mrbig.ko
Thanks, Wilson Li
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