Re: + lib-vsprintfc-even-faster-decimal-conversion.patch added to -mm tree

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Sun Mar 22 2015 - 13:30:13 EST


On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ideal situation is still being
> a) one system call to push PIDs into userspace in bulk
> (memcpy directly from pid_ns->pidmap[i]),
> b) one system call to fetch data in binary to userspace given PID or
> set of PIDs,

This is a good point wrt top/ps.

But.

We will never get rid of vsprintf in kernel printing numbers.
And inevitably there are scenarios where for one reason or another
someone would need to print LOTS AND LOTS of them.
It does make perfect sense to optimize that, even after
top/ps would start using a more efficient channel to get their data.
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