Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:29:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
To: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
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       Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>, jbarnes@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] end-of-proces handling for acct-csa
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:

> Is it possible to merge BSD and CSA? I mean with CSA, there is a part
> that does per-process accounting. For exemple in the
> linux-2.6.9.acct_mm.patch the two functions update_mem_hiwater() and
> csa_update_integrals() update fields in the current (and parent)
> process. So maybe you can improve the BSD per-process accounting or
> maybe CSA can replace the BSD per-process accounting?

Yes, that was also my preferred direction - make CSA able to also write
BSD acct format, and replace the existing BSD accounting with CSA.
However it seems this will still increase the amount of kernel code quite 
a bit.

Sorry for not going into any details, I have to leave right now and will 
be offline for two weeks.

Tim
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