From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:37:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4900C462.8010208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023153923.GB4011@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:44:12AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
>> Lastly, /sys seems to have over run even /proc. On an rx2600 (ia64):
>> grundler@gsyprf3:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ find /sys ! -type d | wc
>> 6288 6296 264893
>
> Is this causing some kind of problem for your systems?
>
> /sys shows far more information than /proc does, so of course it would
> be larger in quantity.
>
Furthermore, it is actually structured as individual data items; a lot
of /proc files are aggregate freeform data.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 23:02 [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 21:18 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-09 21:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 21:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-09 21:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 22:55 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-09 23:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 2:40 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 4:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 6:08 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 6:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 7:32 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-12 7:16 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-10 22:45 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-14 6:50 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-12 7:11 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 1:45 ` [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 3:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-23 4:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 6:44 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 8:38 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2008-10-23 15:39 ` Greg KH
2008-10-23 18:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-10-23 19:36 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 19:49 ` Greg KH
2008-10-24 10:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-01 17:10 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 6:48 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 6:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 19:28 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-10 2:40 ` [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 2:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 2:40 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 15:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-10 16:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 16:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-10 16:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-10 16:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-10 17:18 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-12 7:38 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-12 7:20 ` Grant Grundler
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