On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 04:07:25AM -0600, Michael Christie wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 9, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Chris Leech <cle...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 03:24:04PM -0800, Chris Leech wrote:
> >> But there may be more straightforward gains to be had in cleaning up the
> >> sysfs code.  Every attribute read ends up in 
> >> sysfs_lookup_devpath_by_subsys_id
> >> which does a bunch of string ops and stats trying to find the device
> >> path.  Even keeping the subsystem location general as it is, if we find
> >> things once and remember the path for all the attribute reads it should
> >> help a lot.
> > 
> > On the right track but that still wasn't exactly the big issue.
> > It's the attribute cache.  It grows without bounds, and the lookup is
> > just a linear walk through a linked list with a strcmp against each
> > node.
> 
> Make sure to check if the udev sysfs code already fixed the issue. I
> had just grabbed that code a long time ago. Since then, they made a
> real lib, which we should look into using, and lots of other changes.

Yeah, if there's no objections to using it I think that a switch to
libudev is the way to go. I've used it a bit before, I'll get something
worked up in the next few days.

- Chris

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