Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964802AbVLNSca (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:32:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964835AbVLNSca (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:32:30 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54992 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964802AbVLNSc3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:32:29 -0500 To: Martin Peschke Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] statistics infrastructure - prerequisite: scatter-gather ringbuffer References: <43A044AA.4040103@de.ibm.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 14 Dec 2005 19:32:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: <43A044AA.4040103@de.ibm.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 15 Martin Peschke writes: > [patch 1/6] statistics infrastructure - prerequisite: scatter-gather ringbuffer > > This patch implemenents a ringbuffer made up of scattered memory (pages). > The current implementation allows fixed-size entries to be stored in the > ringbuffer. There are routines that simplify writing entries to a buffer > and reading entries from a buffer. Ringbuffer resizing is not supported, yet. > > This is actually a separate feature which could be used for purposes > other than statistics. This seems redundant with relayfs. -Andi - 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/