Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:23:53AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >The hotplug event points to the sysfs location of the kobject, that's
> >all.  libsysfs then takes that kobject location and sucks up all of the
> >attribute information for that kobject, which udev then uses to
> >determine what it should do.
> 
> This sounds like a very different issue than what I thought you said 
> originally. Your other message said a "find over the sysfs tree", 
> implying some sort of tree-wide search for relevant information. In 
> fact, the "find" is only for attributes in the directory owned by the 
> kobject, right? Once they have been "found", they will age out of the 
> dentry/inode cache just like any other search results.

They might, depending on the patch implementation.  And no, the issue
isn't different, as we have to show the memory usage after all kobjects
are accessed in sysfs from userspace, not just before, like some of the
measurements are, in order to try to compare apples to apples.

thanks,

greg k-h