From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@us.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:17:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031007044703.GB9036@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031006193050.GT7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:30:50PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> What's more important, for leaves of the sysfs tree your overhead is also
> a loss - we don't need to pin dentry down for them even with current sysfs
> design. And that can be done with minimal code changes and no data changes
> at all. Your patch will have to be more attractive than that. What's the
> expected ratio of directories to non-directories in sysfs?
Current sysfs / kobject design _require_ that dentries for the leaves to be
present all the times. There is simply no generic way to find attributes
of a kobject. As of now it uses dentry->d_fsdata to reach to the attribute.
In my system leaves are around 65% of the total.
Thanks
Maneesh
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Maneesh Soni
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IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-07 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-06 8:59 [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 9:00 ` [RFC 1/6] sysfs-kobject.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 9:00 ` [RFC 2/6] sysfs-mount.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 9:01 ` [RFC 3/6] sysfs-file.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 9:01 ` [RFC 4/6] sysfs-symlink.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 9:02 ` [RFC 5/6] sysfs-attr_group.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 9:03 ` [RFC 6/6] sysfs-dir.patch Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 13:43 ` [RFC 2/6] sysfs-mount.patch viro
2003-10-07 7:17 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-10-06 13:41 ` [RFC 1/6] sysfs-kobject.patch viro
2003-10-06 16:16 ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 17:41 ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-10-06 17:44 ` Greg KH
2003-10-06 16:08 ` [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs 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 [this message]
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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2003-10-06 12:34 Christian Borntraeger
2003-10-06 17:38 Christian Borntraeger
2003-10-06 17:41 ` Greg KH
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
2003-10-06 18:19 Christian Borntraeger
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2003-10-06 19:01 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-10-06 19:10 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 0:15 ` Pascal Schmidt
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