From: Peter W. <pwi...@bi...> - 2004-08-27 03:43:06
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John Hesterberg wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:18:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>Jay Lan <jl...@en...> wrote: >> >>>I have broken up one big CSA kernel patch into four smaller ones >>> as attached: >>> >>> csa_io - collects io accounting data >>> csa_mm - collects mm accounting data >>> csa_eop - provides a hook to perform end-of-process accounting >>> csa_module - builds csa loadable module >> >>More broadly: Help! >> >>I am 100% not in a position to judge whether Linux needs Comprehensive >>System Accounting, nor am I able to define what the requirements for such a >>thing should be. All I can tell from your patch is the quality of its >>implementation, and that's leaping far, far ahead of where we should be. > > > Linux needs something beyond what it has today, at least for the > HPC market SGI is familiar with. We believe it will more generally > benefit Linux HPC and enterprise markets, which is one reason we've > released the whole CSA stack as open source. > > >>We're going to need help from you, and from all the other stakeholders in >>judging how useful this feature is to Linux implementors and how well this >>implementation meets the (unknown) requirements. See my problem? >> >>I've cc'ed lse-tech, where enterprise folks hang out. I would request that >>the people who are stakeholders in this feature >> >>a) stick their hands up > > > We're running CSA in production on Altix (our Itanium/Linux platform) > for several years now. > > >>b) let us know how important this kind of feature is for their users > > > A substantial number of our customers require it. CSA has been > developed over the years on SGI's HPC systems in response to our > customers needs. It's been reimplemented and opensourced for Linux, > originally as an SGI/LANL collaboration. > > >>c) review the offered feature set against their requirements >> >>d) let us know how well the implementation fits that requirement and > > > It fits. :-) > > Actually, one secondary feature on our wishlist is 'projects'. Should be easy to implement with PAGG :-) > > Our customers are tied into the current CSA user interface. > However, there is lots of room for cooperation under that, particularly > in the kernel. We can always consider a migration project as well. > > John > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to maj...@vg... > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Peter Williams pwi...@bi... "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce |