Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752547Ab0ABGDH (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:03:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752533Ab0ABGDB (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:03:01 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:57948 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751125Ab0ABGDA (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:03:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:59:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , KOSAKI Motohiro , Borislav Petkov , David Airlie , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2 Message-ID: <20100102055947.GA3428@kroah.com> References: <20091228092712.AA8C.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 19 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 -- 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/