Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdirscalability v2

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Jan 02 2010 - 01:03:16 EST


On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:10:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So I guess that's an "Ack", although I'd prefer it to get some more
> testing and perhaps go through Greg's tree as sysfs patches usually go.
>
> And by "testing" I mean both the "yes, this second version also breaks the
> lockdep chain and avoids the warning", but also some kind of actual
> testing of /sysfs itself. If there is any.

I'll queue this up in my tree on Monday to get it some testing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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