Messages in this thread |  | | From | Balaji Rao <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][-mm] [0/2] Basic stats for cgroups V2 | Date | Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:19:14 +0530 |
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On Tuesday 08 April 2008 01:06:17 pm Paul Menage wrote: > > One of the important API choices would be whether the stats API was > fixed in header files shared with userspace, or whether it would be > possible for stats to be added and dynamically discovered/used by > userspace without needing fixed header file descriptions. > The second idea is much better, I feel.
> The difference would be a bit like the old sysctl API (where each > sysctl entry had to be enumerated in a header file) versus the newer > /proc/sys approach where numerical values aren't used and userspace > can determine which entries are supported at runtime, and even access > new previously-unknown entries. >
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> > Thoughts?
Overall the idea looks good to me.
We are also looking at a generic framework in cgroups that would delegate the job of handling statistics to the cgroup framework itself. This would avoid code duplication across various controllers.
-- regards, Balaji Rao
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