Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754710AbXLVVuu (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:50:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbXLVVul (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:50:41 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:43801 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752868AbXLVVuk (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:50:40 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:50:09 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Christoph Lameter , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers) Message-ID: <20071222215009.GN8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <1198275391.30889.3.camel@lappy> <1198275453.30889.4.camel@lappy> <20071221225413.GA26189@elte.hu> <20071222100326.GF26157@elte.hu> <20071222192550.GD28891@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 25 On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:00:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Another problem with using /sys/slab is that it is downright *ugly*. > > Why is it for example, that /sys/slab/dentry is a symlink to > > ../slab/:a-0000160? > > That's the only really ugly thing there. Otherwise, it's pretty nice, but > having a million files makes for problems when trying to send somebody > else the full info. *raised brows* I would say that there's that really ugly thing with embedding kobject into a struct with the lifetime rules of its own and then having that struct kfree()d while kobject might still have references, but hey, maybe it's just me and my lack of appreciation of the glory that is sysfs. Al, too tired of ranting about sysfs being a major architecture mistake and a recurring source of turds like that one... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/