The eudev project launches [LWN.net]

The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 17, 2012 19:00 UTC (Mon) by vrfy (subscriber, #13362)
In reply to: The eudev project launches by demarchi
Parent article: The eudev project launches

> The introduction of kmod eliminated the 0.01 ms fork() overhead, and
> consequently required each module to be loaded sequentially.

Sequentially?

Udev's workers are all fully async, run in parallel, and can call
module_init() all at the same time.

I really wonder how much you guys know about the project you try to maintain. :)

> This
> > imposes an overhead of 10 to 20 milliseconds times the number of
> > modules, which is asymptotically worse than what it replaced.

I mean, sure, I love simple explanations, but some things just aren't
that simple. This is as wrong as it can get. :)

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