linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc2-mm1] sysfs: reduce memory footprint of sysfs

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Message-ID: <20070529181759.4d4a664f@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 18:17:59 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	"Tejun Heo" <htejun@...il.com>, gregkh@...e.de, oneukum@...e.de,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, stern@...land.harvard.edu, maneesh@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc2-mm1] sysfs: reduce memory footprint of
 sysfs_dirent

On Tue, 29 May 2007 12:04:30 -0400,
"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:

> I think that #3 is a good idea as well - we have a lot of sysfs
> objects on any given system and slimming down sysfs benefits everyone.

Yes, and the added complexity is not that bad.

The patchset seems to work fine so far on the (small z/VM guest) system
I tested it a bit on; I'll try a huge (LPAR) system next.
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