Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections

2010-07-31 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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 sec

Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections

2010-07-31 Thread Greg KH
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 numb

Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections

2010-07-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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

[PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections

2010-07-19 Thread Nathan Fontenot
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 pow