Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [Patch 0/8] statistics infrastructure | Date | Wed, 17 May 2006 20:05:43 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 19:23, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> writes: > > > My patch series is a proposal for a generic implementation of statistics. > > Envisioned exploiters include device drivers, and any other component. > > [...] > > Good places to start reading code are: > > statistic_create(), statistic_remove() > > statistic_add(), statistic_inc() > > [...] > > It is interesting how many solutions pop up for this sort of problem. > The many tracing tools/patches, systemtap, and now this, all share > some goals and should ideally share some of the technology.
I disagree. They often have very different requirements - and a one-size-fits-all solution will be likely too heavyweight for most users.
The passing to user space can be unified, but we already have solutions for that (seq_*, relayfs). But the actual data gathering is better custom tailored.
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