Re: [RFC PATCH v1] btf: Sort BTF types by name and kind to optimize btf_find_by_name_kind lookup

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just a few observations (if we decide to do the sorting of BTF by name
> in the kernel):

iirc we discussed it in the past and decided to do sorting in pahole
and let the kernel verify whether it's sorted or not.
Then no extra memory is needed.
Or was that idea discarded for some reason?