Re: [PATCH mips-next 0/2] MIPS: optimize relocations processing

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 03:01:57PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> This series converts the logics of two main relocation functions,
> one for relocatable kernel and one for modules, from the arrays of
> handlers (callbacks) to plain switch-case functions, which allows
> the compiler to greatly optimize the code, so the relocations will
> be applied faster with lesser code size.
> 
> Tested on MIPS32 R2 with GCC 10.2 and LLVM 11.0 with -O2.
> 
> Alexander Lobakin (2):
>   MIPS: module: optimize module relocations processing
>   MIPS: relocatable: optimize the relocation process
> 
>  arch/mips/kernel/module.c   | 109 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c |  54 ++++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)

series applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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