On Fri, 2015-07-08 at 03:05:42 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Andy Lutomirski says: > > Some dynamic loaders may be slightly faster if a GNU hash is > available. > > This is unlikely to have any measurable effect on the time it takes > to resolve vdso symbols (since there are so few of them). In some > contexts, it can be a win for a different reason: if every DSO has a > GNU hash section, then libc can avoid calculating SysV hashes at > all. Both musl and glibc appear to have this optimization. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/787b393c9f6300c343600d39 cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
