>> On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:35:16, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Has anyone worked on anything like this before? Any pointers? Jordan pointed me at a useful paper from this year's OLS, _Improving Linux Startup Time Using Software Resume (and other techniques)_. It starts at page 25 of: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv2.pdf There's plenty of food for thought on general speedups there too, such as kernel execute-in-place[1,2] and allocate-on-write of .data sections[3]. - Chris. Footnotes: [1]: http://www.montavista.co.jp/products/tech/saving_ram.html [2]: http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/KernelXIP [3]: http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/DataReadInPlace -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
