Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:49:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] sard changes for 2.5.34 |
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Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > On 12 September 2002 05:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Lastly, a bit of a philosophical question. /proc/stat and (with this > > > patch) /proc/diskstats provide some of the same information. Should > > > > > > a) all of it appear in /proc/stat? > > > > > > b) all of it appear in /proc/diskstats? > > > > > > c) keep the current (limited) info in /proc/stat (for backward > > > compatibility) and introduce the expanded info in > > > /proc/diskstats? > > > > > > My preference is b, but I'm open to other opinions. > > > > b). Let's get the kernel right and change userspace to follow. We have > > another accounting patch which breaks top(1), so Rik has fixed it (and > > is feeding the fixes upstream). > > Erm... Some of /proc/stat data has no relations to disks, namely CPU counts. > It would be strange to have CPU stats in /proc/diskstats...
Rick is proposing that all the disk stuff be in /proc/diskstat and that all the process stuff be in /proc/stat. ie: move all the disk accounting out of /proc/stat. - 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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