Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:47:32 +0530 | From | Balbir Singh <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] taskstats: Enhancements for precise accounting |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2010-09-27 13:02:56]:
> > Good point. It is not really necessary. I started development using the > > netlink code. Therefore I first added the new command in the netlink > > code. I also thought, it would be a good idea to provide all netlink > > commands over the procfs interface to be consistent. > > Maybe we should have delivered taskstats over procfs from day one. >
The intention was to provide taskstats over a scalable backend to deal with a large amount of data, including exit notifications. We provided some information like blkioi delay data on proc, but not the whole structure.
-- Three Cheers, Balbir
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