Re: bin/50638: Extreme slowness on loading gzipped kernels on oldCPUs

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 07:15:01AM +0000, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/50638; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: bin/50638: Extreme slowness on loading gzipped kernels on oldCPUs
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:10:47 +0100
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>  On 11.01.2016 23:37, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:50:00PM +0000, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>  >> Is it space cheaper to generate lookup table instead of using a 
>  >> pregenerated one?
>  > 
>  > See the posted patch. It's a bit difficult to say, but it requires
>  > less than 100 Bytes for x86's boot.
>  > 
>  > Joerg
>  > 
>  
>  If it doesn't matter that it's semireentrant it's OK from me.

It is reentrant. It doesn't have to be fully thread-safe, but will
be for any platform providing TSO. Given the constraints libsa operates
under, that's more than enough.

Joerg