Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:29:19 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Add /proc/pid_gen |
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:08:08 -0800 Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote:
> Have you done much > retrospective long trace analysis?
No. Have you?
Of course you have, which is why I and others are dependent upon you to explain why this change is worth adding to Linux. If this thing solves a problem which we expect will not occur for anyone between now and the heat death of the universe then this impacts our decisions.
> The patch already describes the problem, the solution, and the way in > which this solution is provided. What more information do you want?
I want to know how useful the darn thing is! Why is this so hard?
And my thus-far-unanswered question regarding testing the feature is also relevant to that understanding. What does a testcase look like? If we're not actually able to construct one then what does that mean?
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