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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Iago López Galeiras" <iago@endocode.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Djalal Harouni <djalal@endocode.com>,
	Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: config PROC_CHILDREN
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:46:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708144611.GL2054@uranus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559D3134.1080603@endocode.com>

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Iago López Galeiras wrote:
...
> 
> > That being said, I am curious... Is this interface so expensive that it
> > really deserves a separate option, instead of always enabling it? This
> > seems to be a fairly generic feature that a lot of scripts and tools
> > could benefit from (starting with pstree I suppose.)
> 
> I don't think I have enough information to answer that question. I'll CC Cyrill
> Gorcunov and Andrew Morton.

The interface is not expensive per-se but it was developed for
checkpoint/restore in first place so we've been wrapping any
new code created for this sake with CONFIG_. And we (criu
team) were the only users of this interface at those days
so it had lot of sence to keep it conditionally enabled.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-03  7:39 config PROC_CHILDREN Jean Delvare
2015-07-03  9:10 ` Iago López Galeiras
2015-07-04 17:07   ` Jean Delvare
2015-07-08 14:18     ` Iago López Galeiras
2015-07-08 14:46       ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2015-07-08 14:50       ` Djalal Harouni
2015-07-08 16:33         ` Jean Delvare
2015-07-08 16:34       ` Jean Delvare

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