Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750791AbWC3T5m (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:57:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750794AbWC3T5m (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:57:42 -0500 Received: from nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com ([67.18.224.114]:9684 "EHLO nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778AbWC3T5l (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:57:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <20060329225505.25585.30392.stgit@gitlost.site> <20060329225548.25585.73037.stgit@gitlost.site> <8C52750C-8BC3-4815-834C-6DBEA714BA0F@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <351C5BDA-D7E3-4257-B07E-ABDDCF254954@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Chris Leech" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:57:51 -0600 To: Andrew Grover X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kernel.crashing.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 26 On Mar 30, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Grover wrote: > On 3/30/06, Kumar Gala wrote: >> What is the utility of exporting memcpy_count, and bytes_transferred >> to userspace via sysfs? Is this really for debug (and thus should be >> under debugfs?) > > Well....it's true they're useful for debugging but I would put them in > the category of system statistics that shouldn't go in debugfs. I > think they are like /proc/interrupts' interrupt counts or the TX/RX > stats reported by ifconfig. Fair, but wouldn't it be better to have the association per client. Maybe leave the one as a summary and have a dir per client with similar stats that are for each client and add a per channel summary at the top level as well. - kumar - 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/