Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:41:59 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>   
>> performance of binary linked vs. static will vary from platform to
>> platform, but yes, I think generally the benefits outweigh the
>> costs.  IMO.
>>     
>
> And given that to access driver or filesystem code the kernel already
> uses function pointers anyway, I'm not even sure there is any
> performance penalty after the LKM is loaded.  The code is not PIC, it
> needs to be relocated before being loaded (that's why we need ld(1)
> for LKMs) into the kernel, so there's no PIC indirection price to
> pay).
>   
ah.  thanks for that clarification.

    -- Garrett
> SY, Uwe
>   


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