Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:36:29 -0800 | From | "Andrew Grover" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem |
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On 3/30/06, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > What is the utility of exporting memcpy_count, and bytes_transferred > to userspace via sysfs? Is this really for debug (and thus should be > under debugfs?)
Well....it's true they're useful for debugging but I would put them in the category of system statistics that shouldn't go in debugfs. I think they are like /proc/interrupts' interrupt counts or the TX/RX stats reported by ifconfig.
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