Re: [patch] Latency Tracer, voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc4-O6

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 12:55:05 EST



* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That said do not put too much effort moving kode from the kernel to
> kallsyms.c. kallsyms support can be deselected, and users will not
> care about the little extra overhead (down in noise compared with the
> symbols).

distributions tend to enable it though, so saving 64K of kernel RAM is
good indeed. Good compression of the symbols increases the applicability
of kallsyms.

Ingo
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