[RFC PATCH 0/2] use gnuhash to speed up device/driver match

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Mar 3 23:12:41 PST 2017


Hi,

	The following patch series use the gnu hash to speedup device/driver
	matching.

	String compare is slow so we will calculate at runtime a hash that we
	can compare quickly to speed up the match

	in a second step we could speed up this more by calculating the hash
	at compile time

The following changes since commit d92ed454107b4d6f0d30fa0271da191ae5911d18:

  Merge branch 'for-next/video' into next (2017-02-27 08:51:08 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.jcrosoft.org/barebox.git delivery/gnuhash

for you to fetch changes up to 5ede85afc958bdf488a3c5e56061e7f27c26cbc6:

  driver: generate hash at runtime to speed up device/driver matching (2017-03-01 03:49:34 +0800)

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Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (2):
      driver: remove the const of struct platform_device_id *id_table
      driver: generate hash at runtime to speed up device/driver matching

 drivers/base/bus.c    | 16 ++++++++++------
 drivers/base/driver.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/driver.h      |  7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Best Regards,
J.



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