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SubjectRe: [RFC] proc: report open files as size in stat() for /proc/pid/fd
On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 5:30 AM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 11:32:02AM -0700, Ivan Babrou wrote:
> > > > > * Make fd count acces O(1) and expose it in /proc/pid/status
> > >
> > > This is doable, next to FDSize.
> >
> > It feels like a better solution, but maybe I'm missing some context
> > here. Let me know whether this is preferred.
>
> I don't know. I'd put it in st_size as you did initially.
> /proc/*/status should be slow.

Could you elaborate what you mean?

* Are you saying that having FDUsed in /proc/*/status _would_ be slow?
I would imagine that adding atomic_read() there shouldn't slow things
down too much.
* Are you saying that reading /proc/*/status is already slow and
reading the number of open files from there would be inefficient?

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