Re: SLUB: purpose of sysfs events on cache creation/removal
From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Wed Dec 04 2019 - 10:25:45 EST
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Just drop the events may be best. Then we know if someone is using it.
> >
> > I would be worried that a lack of events might be surprising and a
> > potential userspace wouldn't know that something has changed.
>
> It would be great to land with some decision here.
Drop the events. These are internal kernel structures and supporting
notifiers to userspace is a bit unusual.