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Greg KH wrote: >On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:42:36AM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > >>>Greg KH wrote:>> >>>>>On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:33:40PM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Changes since 11/14/05:>>>>>>>>- explicit versioning of statistics data returned>>>>- new command type for returning per-tgid stats>>>>- for cpu running time, use tsk->sched_info.cpu_time (collected by schedstats) >>>>>>>>First post 11/14/05>>>>>>>>delayacct-connector.patch>>>>>>>>Creates a connector interface for getting delay and cpu statistics of tasks >>>>during their lifetime and when they exit. The cpu stats are available only if >>>>CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is enabled.>>>> >>>>>>>Why do you use this when we can send typesafe data through netlink >>>messages now? >>> >>>>>AFAIK, adding new netlink types was frowned upon which is one of the reasons why >>connectors were proposed (besides making it easier to use the netlink interface) ? >> >>>>I don't know about the issue of creating new types (have you tried?), >but there is a new netlink message format that pretty should make it >just as easy as the connector stuff to send complex message types. > > Thanks - just saw the genetlink patches/interface which seems to handle the problem of creating new netlink types as well. But why do I get the feeling that the delay accounting patches are becoming a pawn in deprecating connector usage ? :-) I'd rather not run off and implement over genetlink (which no one else seems to be using right now) unless there's some consensus that connectors are to be deprecated. Andrew - any opinions ? -- Shailabh >thanks,>>greg k-h>>>------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click>_______________________________________________>Lse-tech mailing list>Lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lse-tech>> > - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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