On 09/28/2010 05:12 PM, Robin Holt wrote:
> Why not update sysfs directory creation to be fast, for example by
> using an rbtree instead of a linked list. This fixes an
> implementation problem in the kernel instead of working around it
> and creating a new ABI.
Because the old ABI creates 129,000+ entries inside
/sys/devices/system/memory with their associated links from
/sys/devices/system/node/node*/ back to those directory entries.
Thankfully things like rpm, hald, and other miscellaneous commands scan
that information. On our 8 TB test machine, hald runs continuously
following boot for nearly an hour mostly scanning useless information
from /sys/
I see - so the problem wasn't just kernel internal; the ABI itself was
unsuitable. Too bad this wasn't considered at the time it was added.
(129k entries / 1 hour = 35 entries/sec; not very impressive)
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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