Re: [RFC - V2] - Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 08 2010 - 20:29:22 EST


On 12/08/2010 01:22 PM, Jack Steiner wrote:
>
> This patch substantially reduces the time to run ACPIDUMP on a large system:
> 527 seconds without the patch
> 8 seconds with the patch
>

This is probably the worst possible motivation you can give here.
Bootup time is much more of an issue.

However, this really needs Len's ack.

-hpa
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