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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <CBORNTRA@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:41:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031006174128.GA4460@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF6873DDE8.877C0EE8-ONC1256DB7.005F0935-C1256DB7.0060DEDC@de.ibm.com>

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:38:06PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:29:15PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> >> 
> >> 2.6.0-test6          With patches.
> >> -----------------
> >> dentry_cache (active)                2520                    2544
> >> inode_cache (active)         1058                    1050
> >> LowFree                      875032 KB               874748 KB
> > 
> > So with these patches we actually eat up more LowFree if all sysfs
> > entries are searched, and make the dentry_cache bigger?  That's not good
> > :(
> [...]
> > information for that kobject.  So I don't see any savings in these
> > patches, do you?
> 
> I do. As stated earlier, with 20000 devices on a S390 guest I have around 
> 350MB slab memory after rebooting. 
> With this patch, the slab memory reduces to 60MB. 

That's good.  But what happens after you run a find over the sysfs tree?
Which is essencially what udev will be doing :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-06 17:38 [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs Christian Borntraeger
2003-10-06 17:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-10-06 18:00   ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-10-06 18:11     ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 18:23       ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-10-06 18:30         ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 18:38           ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-10-07  8:30           ` Maneesh Soni
     [not found] <Dzxw.1wW.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <DGfG.4UY.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <DHv1.5Ir.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <DHEU.7ET.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <DHY6.3c0.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <DI7S.58w.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-06 19:01           ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-10-06 19:10             ` Greg KH
2003-10-07  0:15               ` Pascal Schmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-06 18:19 Christian Borntraeger
2003-10-06 12:34 Christian Borntraeger
2003-10-06  8:59 Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 16:08 ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 17:31   ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 17:38     ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 18:01       ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 18:09         ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 18:31           ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 18:34             ` Greg KH
2003-10-07  9:08               ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-10-06 18:44 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-10-06 19:27   ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 19:30     ` viro
2003-10-06 20:01       ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 20:34         ` viro
2003-10-07  4:47       ` Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 19:33     ` Patrick Mochel
2003-10-06 20:26       ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 20:29         ` Patrick Mochel
2003-10-07  4:31           ` Maneesh Soni
2003-10-07  5:25             ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-07  7:17               ` Maneesh Soni

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