Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats

From: Shailabh Nagar
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 14:17:21 EST


Jay Lan wrote:
Shailabh Nagar wrote:


Yes. If no one registers to listen on a particular CPU, data from tasks
exiting on that cpu is not sent out at all.


Shailabh also wrote:


During task exit, kernel goes through each registered listener (small list) and decides which
one needs to get this exit data and calls a genetlink_unicast to each one that does need it.



Are we eliminating multicast taskstats data at exit time?

Yes. Only unicasts to each listener now.

A unicast
exit data with cpumask will do for me, but just like to be sure where
we are.

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