Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271179AbUJVC3w (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:29:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271148AbUJVC3r (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:29:47 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50064 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271179AbUJVCNp (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:13:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:11:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jay Lan Cc: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9 0/2] enhanced accounting data collection Message-Id: <20041021191137.528ab638.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <41785FE3.806@engr.sgi.com> References: <41785FE3.806@engr.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1687 Lines: 43 Jay Lan wrote: > > These two patches are the one we submitted to SuSE for Sles9 SP1. Did suse accept them? > They are clean of CSA specific code. > > In earlier round of discussion, all partipants favored a common > layer of accounting data collection. I believe these two patches are > the super set that meets the needs of people who need enhanced BSD > accounting. OK, well I shall assume that all participants are reading lse-tech, or that readers of lse-tech will pass on the appropriate heads-up. Because if I don't hear from anyone, this all goes in. > This patchset consists of two parts: acct_io and acct_mm, as we > identified improved data collection in the area of IO and MM are > useful to our customers. > > It is intended to offer common data collection method for various > accounting packages including BSD accouting, ELSA, CSA, and any other > acct packages that favor a common layer of data collection. > > 'acct_mm' defines a few macros that are no-op unless > CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT config flag is set on. > > Andrew, please consider including these two patches. Please let me > know how i can help! These patches are really, really badly documented. This is by no means unusual, but I labour on. A nice description of what you set out to do and how you did it would be a nice thing to present. I have a few comments on the present implementation and shall follow up to those patches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/