Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: add /proc/tile, /proc/sys/tile, and a sysfs cpu attribute

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 20 May 2011 17:00:47 Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > Any chance you can still restructure the information? I would recommend
> > making it a first-class procfs member, since the data is really per-task.
> >
> > You can add a conditional entry to tgid_base_stuff[] in fs/proc/base.c
> > to make it show up for each pid, and then just have the per-task information
> > in there to do the lookup the other way round:
> >
> > # cat /proc/484/hardwall
> > 2x2 1,1 @2,1
> >
> > # cat /proc/479/hardwall
> > 2x2 1,1 @1,1
> 
> It's not unreasonable to do what you're suggesting, i.e. "what's this
> task's hardwall?", but it's not something that we've come up with any kind
> of use case for in the past, so I'm not currently planning to implement
> this.  If we did, I agree, your solution looks like the right one.

It's fairly easy to aggregate in user space though, we do similar
things for 'lsof' and 'top', which walk all of procfs in order
to show the complete picture. This is obviously more overhead than
walking the lists in the kernel, but still not an expensive
operation, and it keeps the data format much simpler.

	Arnd
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