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SubjectRe: [patch 2/3] add CSA accounting to taskstats
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Pavel,

Thanks much for your feedback.

However, the patchset you commented on was replaced by a new
patchset posted on 8/03:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115457888801994&w=2

Thanks,
- jay

>
>
>>Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
>>
>
>>Index: linux/include/linux/taskstats.h
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux.orig/include/linux/taskstats.h 2006-07-31 11:42:10.000000000 -0700
>>+++ linux/include/linux/taskstats.h 2006-07-31 11:50:00.412433042 -0700
>>@@ -107,6 +107,21 @@ struct taskstats {
>> __u64 ac_utime; /* User CPU time [usec] */
>> __u64 ac_stime; /* SYstem CPU time [usec] */
>> /* Basic Accounting Fields end */
>>+
>>+ /* CSA accounting fields start */
>>+ __u16 csa_revision; /* CSA Revision */
>>+ __u16 csa_pad[3]; /* Unused */
>
>
> I guess you have way too many TLAs here...
>
>
>>+config CSA_ACCT
>>+ bool "Enable CSA Job Accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>>+ depends on TASKSTATS
>>+ help
>
>
> "Enable Comprehensive System Accounting Job Accounting" . Ouch. So you
> do not even know how to use those accronyms correctly.
>
> I guess you should invent some better naming.
>
>
>
>>+ Comprehensive System Accounting (CSA) provides job level
>>+ accounting of resource usage. The accounting records are
>>+ written by the kernel into a file. CSA user level scripts
>>+ and commands process the binary accounting records and
>>+ combine them by job identifier within system boot uptime
>>+ periods. These accounting records are then used to produce
>>+ reports and charge fees to users.
>>+
>>+ Say Y here if you want job level accounting to be compiled
>>+ into the kernel. Say M here if you want the writing of
>>+ accounting records portion of this feature to be a loadable
>>+ module. Say N here if you do not want job level accounting
>>+ (the default).
>>+
>>+ The CSA commands and scripts package needs to be installed
>>+ to process the CSA accounting records. See
>>+ http://oss.sgi.com/projects/csa for further information
>>+ about CSA and download instructions for the CSA commands
>>+ package and documentation.
>
>
> ...long text and it *still* does not tell me what it is good for.
>
>
>>+/*
>>+ * Record revision levels.
>>+ *
>>+ * These are incremented to indicate that a record's format has changed since
>>+ * a previous release.
>>+ *
>>+ * History: 05000 The first rev in Linux
>>+ * 06000 Major rework to clean up unused fields and features.
>>+ * No binary compatibility with earlier rev.
>>+ * 07000 Convert to taskstats interface
>>+ */
>>+#define REV_CSA 07000 /* Kernel: CSA base record */
>
>
> We normally drop back compatibility at merge...
> Pavel
>

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