Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14T14:18:07Z

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:07:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> It's not only complexity. Each new sysfs entry costs memory.
> Memory is not free. There should be always a good reason for those.

It's not a lot of memory; it's one directory and a couple of files for
each PCI slot in the system. Even huge systems have maybe 200 slots.
In order for this to take up as much as one page of ram on a typical PC
with six slots, this would have to consume 680 bytes per directory. I
don't think sysfs is that inefficient (and if it is, maybe this feature
is not where the problem is, given the 'power' directory per device, the
19 files per scsi device, the huge numbers of symlinks, etc).

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