From: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 07:02:46 -0600
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:13 PM David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> >> From: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> >> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 16:31:46 -0600 >> >> > In preparation to remove direct accesses to the device_node.name >> > pointer, retrieve the node name from the "name" property instead. >> > >> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> >> > Cc: sparcli...@vger.kernel.org >> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> >> >> On some 32-bit sparcs, the OF runs in non-cached memory. >> >> Sucking in the OF device tree take a signficant amount of the >> boot time on such systems. >> >> And these changes are going to make it even slower. >> >> Please just put a wrapper around dp->name or whatever and use that, >> instead of making more get property OF calls which can be very >> expensive. > > It's not making calls into OF. It is retrieving the property from the > kernel's copy of the DT (allocated by memblock). So the only > difference is we have to walk the struct property list to find "name". > That's perhaps offset by the fact that we'll be doing one less > property retrieval from OF when this is all done. Right now, we > retrieve "name" from OF twice per node. Ok, now I understand, thanks.
