Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:46:15 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts |
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> Hello! > > > Actually sysctl allows converting everything, if you just put in a pointer to > > your own handling function [of course for ms it should be put into sysctl.c > > as a generic mechanism]. proc_dointvec is just a default. > > He-he... Looking at do_proc_dointvec was enough for me to forget about > idea to create our own private functions 8)8) > > BTW do you know that we used sysctl absolutely incorrectly? > No sys/net variables define "strategy" method, hence sysctl() does not work > at all. To be more exact, it does not any checks or transformations. > Grr... What sad discovery... :( I make such discoveries not every day 8) > > Alexey
Alexey, before you will start any proc-related changes in net/*, could you look through the patch partially cleaning up that stuff, OK? I'll dig it out and port to the current kernel(s) - it should go both for 2.2 and 2.3. Later, Al
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