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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:28:56 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Alexey Vlasov <renton@renton.name>
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Subject: Re: devpts mounts too slowly
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Alexey Vlasov wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> In comparison with bind/proc mounting it takes a lot more time mounting
> devpts. Is it possible to somehow accelerate the process? Now there are
> about 5k devpts mounting, it already took 20 minutes, further will take
> even more time.
> 
> # time mount -n -i -t devpts none /home/staff/.server-1/dev/pts
> real    0m0.295s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.288s
> 

A profile would be handy here.  There is no sensible reason for this to
that 0.3 seconds.  This might be RCU-epoch related?

	-hpa

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