Re: [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 19:20:09 EST


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? 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
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