From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net,
kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
davem@redhat.com, jlan@sgi.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
elsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:40:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050301124041.2403d641.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109592658.2188.924.camel@jzny.localdomain>
Jamal wrote:
> What was wrong with just going ahead and just always
> invoking your netlink_send()?
I think the hope was to reduce the cost of the accounting hook in fork
to "next-to-zero" if accounting is not being used on that system.
See Andrew's query earlier:
> b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
> socket but no accounting daemon is running.
Presumably sending an ignored packet costs something, quite possibly
more than "next-to-zero".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-01 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-19 0:51 A common layer for Accounting packages Jay Lan
2005-02-19 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 6:51 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-22 20:11 ` [Lse-tech] " Jay Lan
2005-02-23 7:30 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-21 7:54 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-22 20:26 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-23 7:07 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-23 7:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 8:33 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-23 8:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 9:30 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-23 9:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 19:11 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-24 7:42 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-23 9:50 ` Tim Schmielau
2005-02-24 22:27 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-23 11:29 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-23 20:48 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-25 5:07 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-25 5:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 17:32 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-25 17:45 ` Chris Wright
2005-02-25 18:11 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-25 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 22:18 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-27 9:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-27 15:20 ` KaiGai Kohei
2005-02-27 14:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-27 19:27 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-28 1:59 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-28 1:59 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-28 2:32 ` [Lse-tech] " Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 5:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-02-28 5:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-02-28 7:20 ` [Lse-tech] " Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-28 7:39 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-28 8:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-02-28 12:10 ` jamal
2005-02-28 9:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-28 9:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-28 13:20 ` [Lse-tech] " Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 13:40 ` jamal
2005-02-28 13:53 ` Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 9:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-28 14:10 ` jamal
2005-02-28 14:25 ` Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 15:31 ` jamal
2005-02-28 16:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-02-28 16:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-01 8:21 ` [Lse-tech] " Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-01 13:38 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-03-01 13:53 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-01 14:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-02 4:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-02 8:58 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-02 9:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-02 9:25 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-02 15:30 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-01 20:40 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-02-24 1:25 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-24 1:56 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-24 2:07 ` Paul Jackson
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