Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751509AbWADAvm (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:51:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751512AbWADAvm (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:51:42 -0500 Received: from c-24-22-115-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([24.22.115.24]:29855 "EHLO aria.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751509AbWADAvl (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:51:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:51:31 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Shailabh Nagar Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , elsa-devel , LSE , ckrm-tech Subject: Re: [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface Message-ID: <20060104005131.GA19356@kroah.com> References: <43BB05D8.6070101@watson.ibm.com> <43BB09D4.2060209@watson.ibm.com> <20060104002112.GA18730@kroah.com> <43BB19FC.9020905@watson.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43BB19FC.9020905@watson.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 37 On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:42:36AM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > 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) ? I don't know about the issue of creating new types (have you tried?), but there is a new netlink message format that pretty should make it just as easy as the connector stuff to send complex message types. 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/