On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:13:14PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > At some point someone wrote sysfs_readdir to insert a cursor > into the list of sysfs_dirents to ensure that sysfs_readdir would > restart properly. That works but it is complex code and tends > to be expensive. > > The same effect can be achieved by keeping the sysfs_dirents in > inode order and using the inode number as the f_pos. Then > when we restart we just have to find the first dirent whose inode > number is equal or greater then the last sysfs_dirent we attempted > to return. > > Removing the sysfs directory cursor also allows the remove of > all of the mysterious checks for sysfs_type(sd) != 0. Which > were nonbovious checks to see if a cursor was in a directory list. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> -- tejun _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
