inode/dcache overhead of sysfs attribute files?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Wed, 02 Jul 2003 19:48:11 -0400


Has anybody looked into the inode and dcache overhead of all this stuff,
which I assume is pinned into memory a la ramfs?

I wonder if sysfs attributes could be accessed via the extended
attribute VFS API? A file full of EA's can easily be considered a
key-value database, or attribute-value in this case :) The EA names and
values need not pin a bunch of inodes and dcache entries, either.
(though viro may scream at my mention of EAs :))

Jeff

-
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/