Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

[Paul Jackson]

Jamal wrote:
> What was wrong with just going ahead and just always
> invoking your netlink_send()? 

I think the hope was to reduce the cost of the accounting hook in fork
to "next-to-zero" if accounting is not being used on that system.

See Andrew's query earlier:
> b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
>    socket but no accounting daemon is running.

Presumably sending an ignored packet costs something, quite possibly
more than "next-to-zero".

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/