Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753305AbXJ2Xp2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:45:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750862AbXJ2XpR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:45:17 -0400 Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4]:56679 "EHLO tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752093AbXJ2XpP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:45:15 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HAJYNJkdMQWvU/2dsb2JhbACBWg Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:40:12 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Jens Axboe , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Philippe Elie , Linus Torvalds , "William L. Irwin" , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository) Message-ID: <20071029234012.GB19413@Krystal> References: <20071029215138.GA4233@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 19:35:48 up 91 days, 23:54, 3 users, load average: 0.45, 0.81, 0.71 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1011 Lines: 28 * Christoph Lameter (clameter@sgi.com) wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > vm/vmstat.c > > The vm statistics are important for the operation of the VM. They are not > optional. So I do not think that they fall under the category of > instrumentation. But I guess vm stats can be useful to others; a kernel tracer for instance ? Putting stuff in instrumentation/ by no way means that it becomes optional for a subsystem, but merely that it could either export information useful for kernel instrumentation or have some infrastructure parts merged with others. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - 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/