On 2019-11-29 20:14:47 [-0600], Frank Rowand wrote: > The hash used is based on the assumptions you noted, and as stated in the > code, that phandle property values are in a contiguous range of 1..n > (not starting from zero), which is what dtc generates. > > We knew that for systems that do not match the assumptions that the hash > will not be optimal. Unless there is a serious performance problem for > such systems, I do not want to make the phandle hash code more complicated > to optimize for these cases. And the pseries have been performing ok > without phandle related performance issues that I remember hearing since > before the cache was added, which could have only helped the performance. > Yes, if your observations are correct, some memory is being wasted, but > a 64 entry cache is not very large on a pseries.
okay, so it is nothing new and everyone is aware of the situation. I move on then :) > -Frank Sebastian
