Re: kbuild: install to a single directory

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 06:17:48 EST


On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:17:16 +0100 (CET)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> This proposed change will collect all kernel modules in the
> single directory, e.g. /lib/modules/2.6.29-rc2/kernel/, without
> any further directory structure. About 475 inodes (with
> almost-allmodconfig) less are used, which should result
> in faster directory traversal (less seeks).

What do your benchmark numbers look like ?
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