Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:42:36 +0000 | From | Shailabh Nagar <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:33:40PM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > >>Changes since 11/14/05: >> >>- explicit versioning of statistics data returned >>- new command type for returning per-tgid stats >>- for cpu running time, use tsk->sched_info.cpu_time (collected by schedstats) >> >>First post 11/14/05 >> >>delayacct-connector.patch >> >>Creates a connector interface for getting delay and cpu statistics of tasks >>during their lifetime and when they exit. The cpu stats are available only if >>CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is enabled. > > > Why do you use this when we can send typesafe data through netlink > messages now?
AFAIK, adding new netlink types was frowned upon which is one of the reasons why connectors were proposed (besides making it easier to use the netlink interface) ?
> Because of that, I think the whole connector code can be > deleted :) > > Unless I missed something in the connector code that is not present in > netlink... > > thanks, > > greg k-h >
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