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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:27:46 -0400 Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:28:15 -0400 > >Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >>So, we have a good consensus from existing/potential users of taskstats and would > >>very much appreciate it being included in 2.6.18. > >> > >> > > > >Yes, for 2.6.18 I'm inclined to send taskstats and to continue to play > >wait-and-see on the statistics infrastructure. Greg is taking a look at > >the stats code, which is good. > > > > > > > Thanks ! > > The suggestion from Jay Lan to extend the interface by making sending > of tgid stats configurable > is quite reasonable and can be done relatively simply: > set some parameter, either by sending a separate command (verify sender > is privileged) or by > some sysfs parameter and use that to control sending of tgid stats on > task exit (as well as allocation of > any tgid stat related structures). hm. Is it possible to check the privileges of a netlink message sender? > Would you recommend we submit a patch for it now or wait till after > delay accounting has gone into > 2.6.18 ? Earlier, please. > Such requests for extending the interface are likely to happen as more > users start using the interface. > But since any patch will need some testing etc. and we are very close to > the 2.6.18 merge window, I > wanted your advice on whether this should wait until later. If it's merged, we'll have a couple more months to test it, and to fix any little problems. - 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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