Re: [Patch 0/8] per-task delay accounting

From: Shailabh Nagar
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 00:26:58 EST


Peter Chubb wrote:

"Shailabh" == Shailabh Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:





Shailabh> To this list we can also add

Shailabh> Microstate accounting Peter Chubb
Shailabh> <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I don't know if Peter is still
Shailabh> interested in pursuing this or it was rejected.

It's still maintained in a sporadic sort of way --- I update it when
either I need it for something, or someone's downloaded it and asks
why it doesn't work agains kernel X.Y.Z. I see a few downloads a
month.


So do you intend to pursue acceptance ? If so, do you think the netlink-based taskstats
interface provided by the delay accounting patches could be an acceptable substitute for the
interfaces you had (from an old lkml post, they appear to be /proc/tgid/msa and a syscall
based one) ?


My microstate accounting patch overlaps the delay accounting patch quite a
lot in functionality, (but I thnk mine is cleaner except for interrupt
time accounting... which the delay accounting patch doesn't do. I
wanted to know how much time a thread *really* had on the processor,
subtracting off the time spent in interrupt handlers for some other
process).


Thanks. Will incorporate into a note on the mechanisms of the other accounting patches.

--Shailabh


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