Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 13:49:52 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: sysfs makes scaling suck Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning |
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:45:24PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > But also, the sysfs with over 4,000 (and higher) devices was > specifically checked by OSDL (actually as part of the CGL testing) some > of the Manoj changes (for unpinning entries etc) were needed to get it > to function, but as of now, I believe an enterprise scaling test works > reasonably well for it ... there certainly wasn't any evidence of it > dying horribly in the tests.
i386 exhausts lowmem very quickly. SCSI is in a bit better shape than network devices as the multiplier is only around 4 compared to 16 for network devices.
My point stands, though. Forcing every new feature to go in via sysfs is not the right thing to do. Some people don't/can't use it, please remember them.
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