On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 12:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:36:24PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:45 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote: > > > This set of patches de-couples the idea that there is a single > > > directory in sysfs for each memory section. The intent of the > > > patches is to reduce the number of sysfs directories created to > > > resolve a boot-time performance issue. On very large systems > > > boot time are getting very long (as seen on powerpc hardware) > > > due to the enormous number of sysfs directories being created. > > > On a system with 1 TB of memory we create ~63,000 directories. > > > For even larger systems boot times are being measured in hours. > > > > Greg, Kame, how do we proceed with these ? I'm happy to put them in > > powerpc.git with appropriate acks or will you take them ? > > I thought there would be at least one more round of these patches based > on the review comments, right? Yes, but I was nontheless inquiring whether I should pick them up after said repost :-) > I'll be glad to take them when everyone agrees with them. Ok, good, one less thing to worry about in powerpc patchwork :-) Cheers, Ben. > thanks, > > greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>