Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 07:39:58 EST


On Thursday 21 August 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:44 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> >
> > Exporting profiling data for a file system in another file system
> > (/proc) seems not very straigtforward to me. I think it is worth
> > considering to export this information via the same mount point.
>
> I would have said sysfs, rather than 'the same mount point'.
>

Let me throw in debugfs as my preferred option. sysfs is for stable
interfaces, while profiling generally fits into the debugging category.

Arnd <><
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