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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections
Date: Friday, July 30, 2010 - 10:36 pm
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:45 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
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> 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. --
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[PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from mem ...
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:45 pm)
[PATCH 1/8] v3 Move the find_memory_block() routine up
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:51 pm)
[PATCH 2/8] v3 Add new phys_index properties
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:52 pm)
[PATCH 3/8] v3 Add section count to memory_block
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:53 pm)
[PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple memory ...
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:55 pm)
[PATCH 5/8] v3 Update the find_memory_block declaration
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:56 pm)
[PATCH 6/8] v3 Update the node sysfs code
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:57 pm)
[PATCH 7/8] v3 Define memory_block_size_bytes() for ppc/ps ...
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:59 pm)
[PATCH 8/8] v3 Update memory-hotplug documentation
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 19, 8:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/8] v3 Move the find_memory_block() routine up
, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
, (Mon Jul 19, 11:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/8] v3 Add new phys_index properties
, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
, (Mon Jul 19, 11:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/8] v3 Add section count to memory_block
, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:01 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 5/8] v3 Update the find_memory_block declaration
, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:16 am)
Re: [PATCH 6/8] v3 Update the node sysfs code
, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:17 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/8] v3 Add new phys_index properties
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Tue Jul 20, 6:24 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/8] v3 Add section count to memory_block
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Tue Jul 20, 6:26 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Tue Jul 20, 6:28 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/8] v3 Add new phys_index properties
, Dave Hansen
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, Dave Hansen
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, Dave Hansen
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 8/8] v3 Update memory-hotplug documentation
, Dave Hansen
, (Tue Jul 20, 12:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 7/8] v3 Define memory_block_size_bytes() for pp ...
, Brian King
, (Wed Jul 21, 1:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Fri Jul 23, 8:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, Nathan Fontenot
, (Mon Jul 26, 12:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple mem ...
, Dave Hansen
, (Mon Jul 26, 7:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 6/8] v3 Update the node sysfs code
, Brian King
, (Wed Jul 28, 6:50 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from ...
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Fri Jul 30, 10:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from ...
, Greg KH
, (Sat Jul 31, 12:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/8] v3 De-couple sysfs memory directories from ...
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Sat Jul 31, 5:27 pm)
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