On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:36:40AM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote: > The root of this issue is in sysfs directory creation. Every time > a directory is created a string compare is done against sibling > directories ( see sysfs_find_dirent() ) to ensure we do not create > duplicates. The list of directory nodes in sysfs is kept as an > unsorted list which results in this being an exponentially longer > operation as the number of directories are created. Again, are you sure about this? I thought we resolved this issue in the past, but you were going to check it. Did you? 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>