Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:45:25 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages |
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* Jay Lan (jlan@sgi.com) wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote: > > > >>In my understanding, what Andrew Morton said is "If target functionality > >>can > >>implement in user space only, then we should not modify the kernel-tree". > > > > > >fork, exec and exit upcalls sound pretty good to me. As long as > > > >a) they use the same common machinery and > > > >b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink > > socket but no accounting daemon is running. > > > >Question is: is this sufficient for CSA? > > Yes, fork, exec, and exit upcalls are sufficient for CSA.
As soon as you want to throttle tasks at the Job level, this would be insufficient. But, IIRC, that's not one of PAGG/Job/CSA's requirements right?
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