Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:22:58 +1000 | From | sena seneviratne <> | Subject | Fwd: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average |
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Dear Balbir Singh,
This is one of the e-mails probably the last. By this time I have finshed 2.4.19 kernel.
Thanks Sena Seneviratne Computer Engineering Lab School of Electrical and Information Engineering Sydney University Australia
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:43:36 +1000 >To: balbir@in.ibm.com >From: sena seneviratne <auntvini@sedal.usyd.edu.au> >Subject: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average > >Dear Balbir Singh, > >Thanks for your reply and for your time. > >Then I will have to transfer from 2.4.18 to 2.6.18 > >Ok Balbir I will do that. > > >Kind regards >Sena Seneviratne >Computer Engineering Lab >School of Electrical and Information Engineering >Sydney University >Australia > > > >At 02:29 PM 6/20/2006 +0530, you wrote: >>sena seneviratne wrote: >>>Dear Balbir Singh, >>>Thanks for your valuable reply. >>>Balbir It looks like that there is a general project where we all can >>>incorporate our work. >> >> >>Yes it is. It is currently in -mm and we hope that it makes it into >>2.6.18. The folder Documentation/accounting contains all the necessary >>details for you to build on top of delay stats. >> >> >>>--How do you calculate disk load? Is it the >>>---number of uninterruptible tasks in the system? Yes I started at that >>>point >>> >>>Few years ago the few additions I have explained, have been implemented >>>in linux 2.4.18 kernel at the Sydney Uni as part of a large research project. >>>Also few years ago I have posted many posts about this topic to this >>>forum. Few very experience hands were advising me in coding at that >>>time. To prove this I have all the e-mails with me. Yet then I had not >>>explained to this forum about the research project which involved >>>prediction algorithm as then it had not been published. >>>Thereafter few research papers have been published with regard to this. >>>1 in US. >>>Currently I am preparing the changes to a more recent linux patch. In >>>fact this is not hard as I have already changed the previous linux 2.4.18. >> >>Please cc us when you post the patches. >> >>>Before coming to do research I had worked as a Senior software engineer >>>in few companies and my last was LogicaCMG. Yet as far as the kernel >>>programming is concerned I will ask for your comments and advice. >> >>Let us know if you need any help for coding on top of taskstats. >> >>>Thanks >>>Sena Seneviratne >>>Computer Engineering Lab >>>School of Electrical and Information Engineering >>>Sydney University >>>Australia
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