Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:30:16 +0300 | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] binary stream format for /proc/stat |
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:36:15PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Saturday 2012-03-31 23:23, Hiroyuki Kamezawa wrote: > >> > >> Rather than adding more obscure formats and fields to /proc(/N)/stat, we > >> should pursue descriptive lines like in /proc/N/status. > >> Or, if so desired, sysfs-style splitted attributes where the filename > >> takes on the description. > > > >Yes, I like format like /proc/N/status , /proc/meminfo...which is > >readable to me. > >But when I wrote this patch, I didn't want to break current format. > > > >My concern on sysfs-style one data per a file is that it will add many > >open/close and making top/ps/sar slow. > > Or you go netlink. That gives you a binary format.
And one more system call to acquire necessary data.
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