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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lse <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [patch] Scalable statistics counters with /proc reporting
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 12:02:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D516EB5.E8669146@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020807100216.A27321@infradead.org

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> ...
> Also the /proc-based implementation is really ugly.  It should be moved
> over to the seq_file interface at least, a simple ramfs-style own
> filesystem ("stats" filesystem type) would be the cleanest solution.

I'd suggest that it be just a single stat counter per /proc
file.  A simple sprintf is fine for that.

If it's necessary to write a new filesystem to just export a bunch
of integers to userspace then something is seriously wrong.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-07 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-07  8:52 [patch] Scalable statistics counters with /proc reporting Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-08-07  9:02 ` [Lse-tech] " Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-07 19:02   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-08  4:41     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-08-08  9:39   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai

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