Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Statsfs: a new ram-based file system for Linux kernel statistics | From | David Ahern <> | Date | Wed, 27 May 2020 16:21:55 -0600 |
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On 5/27/20 3:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I see what you meant now. statsfs can also be used to enumerate objects > if one is so inclined (with the prototype in patch 7, for example, each > network interface becomes a directory).
there are many use cases that have 100's to 1000's have network devices. Having a sysfs entry per device already bloats memory usage for these use cases; another filesystem with an entry per device makes that worse. Really the wrong direction for large scale systems.
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