From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <CBORNTRA@de.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] Backing Store for sysfs (Overhauled)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:25:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031113195526.GD1773@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311131127170.11822-100000@cherise>
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:34:04AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> I still think that keeping the directories static and only creating the
> leaf (file) dentries dynamically is the best tradeoff between complexity
> and memory consumption.
Sounds like after the locking in the current patches fixed, this
should perhaps be implemented and compared for locking complexity
and memory consumption.
>
> It will require some minor infrastructural modification to associate a
> kobject with all of its leaf nodes, but the result will be cleaner, and
> the worst-case memory consumption will be less than your patches with a
> per-attribute-per-kobject data structure (which there currently isn't).
Would a smaller replacement for the sysfs_dirent structure to link
just leaf nodes to kobject be close to what infrastructural
modifications you are talking about ?
Thanks
Dipankar
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-13 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-12 12:23 [RFC 0/5] Backing Store for sysfs (Overhauled) Maneesh Soni
2003-11-12 12:25 ` [RFC 1/5] sysfs-backing-store.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-11-12 12:25 ` [RFC 2/5] sysfs-dir.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-11-12 12:25 ` [RFC 3/5] sysfs-file.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-11-12 12:26 ` [RFC 4/5] sysfs-attr_group.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-11-12 12:26 ` [RFC 5/5] sysfs-symlink.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-11-12 14:39 ` [RFC 2/5] sysfs-dir.patch viro
2003-11-12 16:00 ` [RFC 0/5] Backing Store for sysfs (Overhauled) Greg KH
2003-11-12 16:27 ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-11-12 16:39 ` Greg KH
2003-11-13 19:34 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-11-13 19:55 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
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