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From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org>
To: "Adhemerval Zanella" <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	"DJ Delorie" <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: "GNU libc development" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: system-wide default tunables
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:40:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b118ff8-db2f-407d-858b-b526b6805467@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf589d17-c71b-48bd-a500-67a6b445a082@linaro.org>

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, at 10:10 AM, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> On 06/10/23 17:25, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:
>>> The hwcap-related are still used for library selection, the original
>>> intention of the ld.so.cache.  What I am afraid is ld.so.cache start to
>>> being an umbrella for different and unrelated settings.
>> 
>> The alternative is to add an /etc/tunables.cache which would correspond
>> to /etc/tunables.conf and/or /etc/tunables.conf.d/*
>> 
>> On most systems (no files) that would add one unsuccessful stat() call.
>
> We can use 'access' to check for file existent first and then read the whole
> file, as we do for /etc/ld.so.preload.  It should slight faster than stat.  

Even better to open() unconditionally and ignore ENOENT failures.

zw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-17 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-04 20:55 DJ Delorie
2023-10-06 14:44 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-10-06 17:12   ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-10-06 18:29   ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-06 19:14     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-10-06 20:25       ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-17 14:10         ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-10-17 14:17           ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-17 14:37             ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-17 15:43             ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-17 15:58               ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-17 16:45             ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-17 16:55               ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-17 17:14                 ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-18 14:20                   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-17 17:40           ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2023-10-17 17:47             ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-17 18:17               ` Zack Weinberg
2023-10-17 18:21                 ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-06 22:04       ` DJ Delorie

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