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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to lock current->signal->tty
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:24:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809162440.GA14143@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155120250.5729.146.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:44:10AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> The users won't see them anyway, they are hidden behind the GUI.

I think that the majority of IA-64 users are connected to the target
machine via ssh login, rather than a directly connected VGA screen.
So they should see the message on their pty.

> > These messages are normally caused by userland code, so kprobes
> > probably wont do much good :)
> 
> Jes, read up on kprobes a little if you think its of no use in these
> kind of situations. A systemtap script to count/measure alignment fault
> rates and see who is causing the load isn't very hard to write.

But this does make sense ... the system administrator of a mainframe or
super-computer can (and arguably should) be monitoring resource
utilization and providing feedback to users on how to get the best
performance from their applications.

-Tony (currently at 90% rip out this message, 10% add the mutex lock/unlock).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 15:17 How to lock current->signal->tty Alan Cox
2006-08-08 15:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-08 15:44   ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 16:41     ` Luck, Tony
2006-08-08 17:50       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-09  8:09         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-09 10:44           ` Alan Cox
2006-08-09 11:26             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-09 16:24             ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2006-08-09 18:10               ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-08 22:06     ` Jan Kara
2006-08-08 17:11 ` Stephen Smalley
2006-08-08 17:43   ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 17:44     ` Stephen Smalley
2006-08-08 18:10       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 20:02     ` Stephen Smalley
2006-08-13 21:34 ` Jan Kara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-09  4:01 Albert Cahalan

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