Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

Stephen Williams wrote:

> A ridiculous burden is a ridiculous burden no matter how fast the
> host system. I want my super-system doing *my* work, not spending
> barrels of mips and I/O cycles picking its nose.

Sure, so do we all.  On the other hand, it's quite understandable
that even just disk access on that under-powered 66 MHz machine
could disrupt everything else going on.  That was certainly my
experience running Linux on such a box.  (It was a "super-system"
maybe ten years ago, but today it's below even low-end...)


> 	It's been
> a while since I've been in the guts of the hotplug scripts, but my
> impression remains that they are in desperate need of diet, even
> for the normal case.

Considering that I've not heard any other complaints about speed
in the couple years they've been in use, "desperate" is wrong.
Demonstrably, there is no real performance problem -- today, on
typical Linux systems.

But regardless, patches to speed things up can be accepted.

- Dave




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