From: Greg KH <gr...@kr...> - 2006-01-04 00:51:51
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:42:36AM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:33:40PM +0000, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > > > >>Changes since 11/14/05: > >> > >>- explicit versioning of statistics data returned > >>- new command type for returning per-tgid stats > >>- for cpu running time, use tsk->sched_info.cpu_time (collected by schedstats) > >> > >>First post 11/14/05 > >> > >>delayacct-connector.patch > >> > >>Creates a connector interface for getting delay and cpu statistics of tasks > >>during their lifetime and when they exit. The cpu stats are available only if > >>CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is enabled. > > > > > > Why do you use this when we can send typesafe data through netlink > > messages now? > > AFAIK, adding new netlink types was frowned upon which is one of the reasons why > connectors were proposed (besides making it easier to use the netlink interface) ? I don't know about the issue of creating new types (have you tried?), but there is a new netlink message format that pretty should make it just as easy as the connector stuff to send complex message types. thanks, greg k-h |