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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Edward Cree <ec429@cantab.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Idea for reducing sysfs memory usage
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:55:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216235502.GA14565@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C3B4E9.7030207@cantab.net>

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:46:49PM +0000, Edward Cree wrote:
> Sorry if this has been suggested before, but if so I couldn't find it.
> Short version: could a sysfs dir reference a list of default attributes
> rather than having to instantiate them all?

Shorter version, why do you think it is?  :)

Have you done some testing of the amount of memory that sysfs entries
consume and found any problems with it?  Remember, a s390 system with
20000 disks works just fine with a very little memory footprint, a lot
of work has gone into making sysfs consume tiny amounts of memory.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 23:46 Idea for reducing sysfs memory usage Edward Cree
2016-02-16 23:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-02-17  0:37   ` Edward Cree
2016-02-17  0:44     ` David Ahern
2016-02-17  2:30       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-17  0:47     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-17  0:53       ` David Ahern
2016-02-17  1:26       ` Edward Cree
2016-02-17  2:27         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-17  0:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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