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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sysfs directory scaling: rbtree for dirent name lookups
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:56:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091103175654.GA27222@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091103164550.GM8227@kvack.org>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:45:50AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 08:07:15AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > But registering 20000 devices is a far different problem from using
> > those 20000 devices :)
> 
> Registering 20,000 devices *is* a real world problem (I'm actually aiming 
> for 100,000, as that's what roughly fits in a single 10Gbps link -- something 
> that a mid range system can now route).  When an edge router comes up from 
> reboot, or after a link has been down, the rate at which customers connect 
> is important -- too slow, and you get a pile of support calls from customers 
> complaining that their connection is down.  Because of the data structures 
> used, there isn't even any improvement from an SMP system, so this needs 
> to be addressed directly.

Ok, how long are we talking about here?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-01 16:31 [PATCH 1/3] sysfs directory scaling: rbtree for dirent name lookups Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs directory scaling: doubly linked list for dirents Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-01 16:33   ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs directory scaling: count number of children dirs Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-03  3:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs directory scaling: rbtree for dirent name lookups Greg KH
2009-11-03  6:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-03  7:01     ` [PATCH] sysctl: reduce ram usage by 40 % Eric Dumazet
2009-11-03 10:23       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-03 16:07     ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs directory scaling: rbtree for dirent name lookups Greg KH
2009-11-03 16:38       ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-03 16:45       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-03 17:56         ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-11-03 22:28       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-03 20:01   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-03 21:32     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-03 21:43       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-03 21:56         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-03 22:06           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-03 21:52       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-03 22:18         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-03 10:41 ` Eric W. Biederman

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