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 ? Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
