Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

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From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 7:17 am

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:07:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

It's not a lot of memory; it's one directory and a couple of files for
each PCI slot in the system.  Even huge systems have maybe 200 slots.
In order for this to take up as much as one page of ram on a typical PC
with six slots, this would have to consume 680 bytes per directory.  I
don't think sysfs is that inefficient (and if it is, maybe this feature
is not where the problem is, given the 'power' directory per device, the
19 files per scsi device, the huge numbers of symlinks, etc).

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[PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Mon Nov 12, 5:08 pm)
[PATCH 1/5] Remove path attribute from sgi_hotplug, Alex Chiang, (Mon Nov 12, 5:12 pm)
[PATCH 2/5] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot, Alex Chiang, (Mon Nov 12, 5:13 pm)
[PATCH 3/5, RFC] Introduce pci_slot, Alex Chiang, (Mon Nov 12, 5:14 pm)
[PATCH 4/5, RFC] ACPI PCI slot detection driver, Alex Chiang, (Mon Nov 12, 5:17 pm)
[PATCH 5/5] Add pci_slot_add_hotplug() interface, Alex Chiang, (Mon Nov 12, 5:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 10:01 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 11:33 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 11:51 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/5] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot, Linas Vepstas, (Tue Nov 13, 12:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/5] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 12:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/5, RFC] Introduce pci_slot, Linas Vepstas, (Tue Nov 13, 12:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/5, RFC] Introduce pci_slot, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 1:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 1:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 1:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Tue Nov 13, 1:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Linas Vepstas, (Tue Nov 13, 1:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 1:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Tue Nov 13, 1:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Tue Nov 13, 1:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matt Domsch, (Tue Nov 13, 2:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 2:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Tue Nov 13, 2:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 2:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 2:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Linas Vepstas, (Tue Nov 13, 2:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 2:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Bjorn Helgaas, (Tue Nov 13, 3:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 3:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Rick Jones, (Tue Nov 13, 3:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 3:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Kristen Carlson Accardi, (Tue Nov 13, 3:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 4:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Tue Nov 13, 4:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Gary Hade, (Tue Nov 13, 4:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Tue Nov 13, 4:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Kristen Carlson Accardi, (Tue Nov 13, 4:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Nov 13, 5:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Andi Kleen, (Tue Nov 13, 6:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Tue Nov 13, 6:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Scott Murray, (Tue Nov 13, 11:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Kenji Kaneshige, (Wed Nov 14, 2:55 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Kenji Kaneshige, (Wed Nov 14, 4:43 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Nov 14, 7:17 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Andi Kleen, (Wed Nov 14, 7:35 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Wed Nov 14, 7:42 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Nov 14, 8:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Andi Kleen, (Wed Nov 14, 8:08 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Nov 14, 8:12 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Wed Nov 14, 8:20 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Bjorn Helgaas, (Wed Nov 14, 10:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Garrett, (Wed Nov 14, 10:44 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Wed Nov 14, 10:51 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Greg KH, (Wed Nov 14, 10:53 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Matthew Garrett, (Wed Nov 14, 11:03 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Gary Hade, (Wed Nov 14, 11:13 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Wed Nov 14, 11:36 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Kristen Carlson Accardi, (Wed Nov 14, 11:38 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Wed Nov 14, 12:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Wed Nov 14, 2:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Wed Nov 14, 2:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Gary Hade, (Wed Nov 14, 5:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Thu Nov 15, 10:36 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Alex Chiang, (Thu Nov 15, 1:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects, Gary Hade, (Thu Nov 15, 4:38 pm)