On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:27:50 -0500
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch(a)dell.com> wrote:
In this most drivers are still modular, just the often-used hotpaths
are built-in, right? This avoids extra TLB lookups? Whatever
happened to mapping modules into the extra space at the end of the
kernel's 2MB TLB entries, to get the same benefit?
it's a lot more than that; it's also about boot speed;
module loading is just slow by nature, and while it can be made a bit
faster, fundamentally, avoiding it for common cases is just the better
solution.
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