Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751497AbWADAnA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:43:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751498AbWADAnA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:43:00 -0500 Received: from mtagate1.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.134]:29371 "EHLO mtagate1.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbWADAm7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:42:59 -0500 Message-ID: <43BB19FC.9020905@watson.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:42:36 +0000 From: Shailabh Nagar User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , elsa-devel , LSE , ckrm-tech Subject: Re: [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface References: <43BB05D8.6070101@watson.ibm.com> <43BB09D4.2060209@watson.ibm.com> <20060104002112.GA18730@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060104002112.GA18730@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 40 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:33:40PM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > >>Changes since 11/14/05: >> >>- explicit versioning of statistics data returned >>- new command type for returning per-tgid stats >>- for cpu running time, use tsk->sched_info.cpu_time (collected by schedstats) >> >>First post 11/14/05 >> >>delayacct-connector.patch >> >>Creates a connector interface for getting delay and cpu statistics of tasks >>during their lifetime and when they exit. The cpu stats are available only if >>CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is enabled. > > > Why do you use this when we can send typesafe data through netlink > messages now? AFAIK, adding new netlink types was frowned upon which is one of the reasons why connectors were proposed (besides making it easier to use the netlink interface) ? > Because of that, I think the whole connector code can be > deleted :) > > Unless I missed something in the connector code that is not present in > netlink... > > thanks, > > greg k-h > - 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/