Re: DBE table ordering

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:37:14 +0400, 
"Gleb O. Raiko" <raiko@niisi.msk.ru> wrote:
>If you really hate this behaviour and want to change it, I guess just
>linear serach is OK.

Performance matters for these tables.  It is worth doing one sort at
boot time to let the kernel run faster all the time.  For some tables
(ia64 unwind) the API mandates that the table be in ascending order.

I just sent a general sort routine to l-k for comments before I do the
rest of the work.